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...with tall tales before a Senate Committee about the "Ohio Gang's" activities. Before the U. S. entered the War, he says, he served with the German spy system in the U. S., once received $1,000,000 from a German agent at a midnight rendezvous in Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan. Further in his past lies an astounding record of crime and near-crime. At one time or another, Gaston Means, a sleuth by profession, has been indicted for breach of promise, impersonating an officer, fraud, bribery, forgery, murder. He once told a Senate committee that ''being indicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Nos. II & 27 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

Poet Thomas Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard serves as commentary to the weirdly posterish illustrations of Artist John Vassos (Dutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gift Books | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

Gray Shadow. A man who has made a practice of murdering folk and claiming their insurance money is mysteriously called the Gray Shadow. When an eccentric recluse is quietly interred in an English country churchyard, his absent ward, the insurance company's detectives and finally the police suspect foul play. They study the circumstances surrounding his burial and in doing so they find the Gray Shadow. The proceedings are not very scarey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...crying: "I'm running in high all the time! I scorch downhill! . . . I've got Napoleon [who slept only four hours per night] backed off the boards, hanging on the ropes!" Then he said he desired that after his death his body should rest in a Boston churchyard. He roared: "Boy, I like the folks back here! ... I told Mrs. Sunday not to bury me in the ground, not to cremate me. I want to be put in a sepulchre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Babies were no longer born dead in Nagyrev. They died a few days later, of cholic. In Nagyrev churchyard sprang up a whole row of little graves, all beautifully cared for, for they belonged to Nagyrev's best families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Midwife Fazekas | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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