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...There are often specific times of the night or day when victims are picked up by their torturer-interrogators. The prisoner is usually hooded or blindfolded. Sessions often begin quietly; physical torture starts only after the interrogator has built himself up to a feigned or genuine anger, which Andrew Blane of Amnesty International calls "an emotional state of furious self-righteousness." Some Chilean prisoners have reported torturers calling a prisoner to an interrogation session with the phrase "It's time to go to work." In Iran, where, as in many other countries, women are routinely raped during torture sessions, Reza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Macabre World of Words and Ritual | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...gold, Farrell began her screen career as a gangster's moll in the 1930 film classic Little Caesar. She went on to wisecrack her way through scores of Hollywood movies, including I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1937 and the Torchy Blane series. Weary of being typecast, she made a deft transition in the 1950s to motherly roles on television and Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 17, 1971 | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

Died. William Hopper, 54, actor son of the late Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, who after many years of playing bit parts in films like Footloose Heiress and Torchy Blane, the Adventurous Blonde, and eight years as a car salesman, became a star of sorts as Paul Drake, Perry Mason's detective friend in the famed TV series; of a stroke; in Palm Springs, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 16, 1970 | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...What was Marcie Blane's greatest...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach and Bruce L. Regan, S | Title: A Wee Mo Weppa: The Crimson Oldies Quiz | 2/6/1970 | See Source »

...Soviet Union--Andrew Blane, "Religious Ferment in the Soviet Union;" Emerson Hall 105. No admission charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Calendar for the Summer | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

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