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HERE'S TO CRIME-Courtney Ryley Cooper-Little, Brown ($2.75). Hairraising bill-of-particulars on U. S. crime, which Author Cooper calls biggest, best-paying U. S. industry, comparatively safe for the 3,500,000 engaged in it but a menace to the three out of four victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Ambassador to the U. S., Felipe A. Espil, sleek and olive-skinned, most of whose career has been in the U. S., who some years ago was a good friend of the divorced Mrs. Spencer (now better known as Mrs. Wallis Simpson). Three years ago he married pretty Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden of Chicago. Appointed to the important post of Secretary General of the Buenos Aires conference, Señor Espil has for the first time taken his twice-divorced wife home to introduce her to the frigid salons of Argentina's strictly Catholic high society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Pan-American Party | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...wellentrenched Kelly-Nash machine in Chicago got all its candidates elected to office, but Governor Henry Horner, whom it tried to crowd off the Democratic ticket in the primaries, had a 400,000 majority, three-quarters of it piled up in Chicago. State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney, whom the Kelly-Nash crowd also tried to ditch, not only polled more votes than Franklin Roosevelt but more than any other candidate ever polled in Cook County: 1,276,984. With these warnings ringing in its ears, the machine put its City Council to work. Two days after the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Democratic Drift | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Force: Vice Marshal Christopher Lloyd Courtney, Deputy Chief of Staff; Group Captain A. T. Harris; Wing Commander J. O. Andrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Staff Talks: Spy Stories | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Except for the "Courtney Players" of the Showboat this movie is completely uninspired, with dull places in it that seem to go on forever. The Players are extremely amusing, however, and are worth sitting through the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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