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...found another gun. Up to 1929, Arthur Barry had robbed rich Long Island and Connecticut homes of $2,000,000 in jewels. Among his victims were the first Mrs. Clarence Mackay, Joshua Cosden, Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Livermore. While robbing the Livermore bedroom, suave Arthur Barry courteously lit a cigaret for Mrs. Livermore, refrained from taking a ring which she particularly fancied, hoped it would bring her luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Barry Trapped | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...output of the Trenton companies is controlled by American Cigar Co., subsidiary of American Tobacco. President of American Cigar is Albert Hayes Gregg who has been in the cigar business over 30 years. He lives in Montclair, N. J., drives his car to Manhattan daily, never carries cigars or cigarets. But the drawers of his desk are filled with both. His favorite cigar is a Corona Coronas and, like every other employe of the big cigaret companies, he smokes his firm's leading brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cheaper Coronas | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...City Blues (Warner). A house detective foraging in a linen closet for his bottle of gin ... chorus girls in a hotel lobby to meet a friend's friend ... the elderly lady who sits alone in speakeasies, puffing a long cigaret holder ... a paper bag in the arm of a bootlegger, asleep on a sofa waiting to be paid . . . paraphernalia for a party, scattered across the top of a hotelroom table. . . . Shots like these, because they have the authentic flavor of one type of night-life in Manhattan, are what make Big City Blues an interesting picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 19, 1932 | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, Wallace F. Mitchell, unemployed machinist, stole a bottle of milk from Grocer Bernard Beese. Grocer Beese shot & killed Machinist Mitchell. Widow Mitchell doubted that her husband had stolen the milk, said he had left the house to pick up cigaret stubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Couplet | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...those to come alive was the girl in blue in the new Chesterfield cigaret advertisements. Said she, named Hazel Grace: "I take care of my aged grandmother. All artists are swell, just swell. I have never been insulted." Another was little black-eyed Dorothy Hart, one of Artist Haskell Coffin's magazine cover models. Said silver-haired Mrs. George Snyder: "I have been insulted. An artist actually had the nerve to ask if my hair was genuine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Live Models | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

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