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There were 13 counts against Lawyer Barriobero, ranging from accusations that he took part in the assault on the Montana Barracks in Madrid and that he helped sack a Madrid convent, to the fact that he was a militant 33rd-degree Mason. Summed up Captain Jose Rodriguez, the military prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Judge's Trial | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Colin Lowrie (Knopf, $2.50), she puts herself into the person of a handsome man from Crosslochie, Scotland, sets out with him to escape the Jacobite disorders of 1745, falls into slavery in the West Indies, escapes again to become a planter in Virginia, there lures a nun from a convent and is wooed by an aggressive woman. All this she does with spirit, conviction and excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escapes Within Escape | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

OXON HILL, MD, -- The grief-stricken mother of 18-year-old Mary Brown, convent student kidnaped near her home late yesterday, made another radio appeal to the abductors tonight, pleading with them to "return my child unharmed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...minutes after a take-off from Montgomery Airport, the right motor of an Eastern Air liner bearing him and ten other passengers to Atlanta caught fire, shook off. Fire licked along the wing. Bracing himself for the inevitable crash Passenger Connolly took from his coat pocket the rosary his convent-school daughter, Mary Jac, 13, gave him just before he left New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...hard to be a mother and an executive at the same time. He says it is nobody's g_ _ d_ _ _ business whether he is en gaged, as reported last spring, to Mrs. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, a beauteous Pittsburgh-born glamor girl whose legend starts from a convent and includes a Broadway chorus, luxurious homes in Paris and Southampton, sculp ture, breeding wire-haired dachshunds, life as an artist's wife (the late Gardner Hale, muralist) and the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Men at Work | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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