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...last week the fat freak's body was placed in a 500-lb. cypress coffin, hauled to Mobile and buried by lodge brothers- Elks and Woodmen of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cadavers | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...party last New Year's Eve, emotional Helen Wills Love, 31, went to the party anyway, shot Mr. Love dead. Mrs. Love's arrest, indictment and trial turned out to be the midwinter sensation of Southern California. She was amply photographed kissing her late husband in his coffin, and during the trial one of the women jurors was removed for habitually getting drunk on liquor which she hid in the women's toilet. Fortnight ago, the other jurors found Helen Wills Love guilty of murder in the second degree. Cried the prisoner: "That's not fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Profound Sulks | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Concluding the first month of transmitting regular classroom lectures and other University activities over station WIXAL, Memorial Church service was broadcast for the first time yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Henry S. Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, of New York City, conducted the service, which was broadcast on a wave-length of 15.35 megacycles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Church Service Is Broadcast Over Short Waves | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Provost, handsome Charles Seymour, was absent. He rarely misses a Corporation meeting, but at that moment he was in his office in Berkeley College. The meeting was brief. Connecticut's roly-poly Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross scuttled out, taking with him famed Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin, to announce to his friend Charles Seymour that he had been elected the 15th president of Yale. "The news," said suave Mr. Seymour, "was a pleasant surprise." No great surprise to Yalemen, the news crowned two of the brightest careers in U. S. education. Brisk, witty James Rowland Angell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yaleman for Yale | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...trap door in his own attic, with British soldiers at his heels and others coming up the stairs, the household is assembled for a wake for little Mollser Gogan, dead of consumption. Quick-witted Nora saves her husband's life by hiding his gun in Mollser's coffin. When the British soldiers break in a moment later, Jack is squatting beside it, playing cards with his cronies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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