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With sausage suitcase, easel and the iron-tipped cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ennry | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...groundwork for his drive, Editor Mabley, a 22-year-old Beta Theta Pi, assigned reporters to cover eight Champaign vice resorts. They interviewed inmates, photographed a brothel façade with the madame in the doorway, a college student "planted" on the porch. Fortnight ago the Illini opened its pack of revelations, drew forth these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Champaign Campaign | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Last week, halfway through its crusade the uninhibited Illini had so alarmed U. of I. President Arthur Cutts Willard that he jumped into a huddle with city officials, emerged with a warning that any student nabbed in a brothel would be expelled summarily. Said President Willard: "I don't believe conditions here are general among the University's 14,000 students. But we intend to put an end to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Champaign Campaign | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Exiled at 15 because he knocked down a policeman while defending the Young Master in a brothel, Ivan got along fine in Siberia until he drove a corkscrew through the commandant's neck for making improper advances to him. At a fugitives' hideout he was petted by a beautiful Swedish girl named Hilda who lectured: "You are strange, you Russians. Your eyes are clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unofficial Russian Novelist | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...News of the Archduke's assassination at Serajevo and the even more upsetting death of the proprietor break up a normally jolly evening in a Viennese brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pre-War | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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