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...background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched in light from the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tilley's Farewell | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...Soviet Constitution the most democratic in the world." The Constitution guarantees freedom of the press in the U.S.S.R.. but last week the big Moscow newsorgans continued to print no details of Russia's current series of "Trotskyist" executions. For this major news correspondents still had to comb copies of local Soviet newsorgans as these reached the capital. Neither in Moscow nor in any other office of the world-wide Soviet official news agency Tass could information be had about the Director of Tass, Jacob Doletsky. who so far as his Moscow journalist friends knew "simply disappeared" two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: 'Superior to America | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...fisherman found Charles F. Keene, quite dead and floating out to sea upside down. What held him so was a brief case whose contents inventoried: a lady's mesh bag, an automobile jack, a mechanic's hammer, two beer can openers, a pen knife, a pocket comb, a silver tea strainer. The brief case was roped to his neck with tight sailor's bowline knots. In Mr. Keene's vest pocket: only a small tin box containing three .32-calibre cartridges and two aspirin tablets. In Mr. Keene's throat, a hole through which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Potomac Mystery | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Emilie and Marie each have 17 teeth, the others 16. They can now brush their own teeth, comb their own hair, dress themselves completely (except for shoe-tying), go to the toilet alone. They feed themselves and for the past month have been carrying their empty dishes from the table to the pantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: . . . And How They Grew | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Both headpieces are of course beautifully decorated. On the smooth surface of the morion in laid a surface of gilding, delicately etched, and cressed by bold strap work in black enamel. On the sides and on the comb are medallions with classical heroes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

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