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Through the years a parade of repellent characters have spat, scratched and scowled through the panels of Cartoonist Chester Gould's comic strip, Dick Tracy. There was Pruneface, a dead ringer for an exhumed cadaver; the Mole, a homicidal man-sized rodent who lived in a burrow; Itchy, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crime & Punishment | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

"Cadaver Absens." All but 2,000 copies of Auxilium Latinum go to Latin students, and its main aim is to help them with their Latin. But Editor Warsley is especially proud of the 2,000 subscribers, such as the Hoosier farmer, who take the magazine because they like to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Semper Latina | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Also Bay Rum. Al's eyes were still closed when the first bullet made a hole in his pudgy left hand. Both gunmen fired at him. Another slug went through Al's clothes, made him jump as though he had been hit with a baseball bat, and bloodied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laughing Matter | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

The Lord Protector's well-embalmed head has not had a reposeful history. In 1660, two years after the 59-year-old Cromwell died in his bed (of a fever), the House of Commons, full of the heady days of the Restoration and Charles II, directed that his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Roundhead on the Pike | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

While their husbands preview cadaver trends for '57, the morticians' ladies will enjoy the Silhouettes of '56, a live fashion show.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dead Man's Holiday | 4/13/1956 | See Source »

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