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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CORPSE IN THE SNOWMAN-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). A girl dies at an English house party that includes a trollop, a squire, an American wife, a rolling stone, a fribble, a quack. Detective Nigel Strangeways is baffled right up to the tantalizing conclusion. Grim and pathological, but a grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...Under the name of Doris Blake, she also gives daily advice to the lovelorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Girls Who Bend | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Nathan Adler '42, Robert W. Blake 2L, William S. Davis Jr., '44 Lawrence E. Gamble Herbert T. Greene OcC. Firman A. Houghton, Dix Lesson '43, William R. Parsons Jr., '42, Charles F. Howley, Jr., '48, William R. Thurston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra Enrollees in CAA Pilot Training Course Fill Vacancies at Tufts College | 10/24/1941 | See Source »

Enter, at this point, a Japanese bigshot: Itaru Tatibana, 39, a lieutenant commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Registered on alien lists as a language student at the University of Southern California, Tatibana put up the money to pay for Al Blake's snooping. Altogether, Al got several thousand dollars from the Japanese, turned it all over to U.S. officials. He made two trips to Hawaii. The Navy handed him some obsolete data, reports of firing practice on the U.S.S. Phoenix last February, several ancient code books. These Al passed on to his employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Secret Agent | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Navy men said they had been watching the two Japanese almost a year, would hale them before a Federal grand jury this week on a charge of espionage (maximum peacetime penalty: 20 years). As for Al Blake. "King of the Robots," he was congratulated by the Navy for successfully keeping a straight face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Secret Agent | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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