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...dozen assembled for a dinner in the parish house of St. Chrysostom's Protestant Episcopal Church, at present Chicago's most fashionable. Host was John Crippen Evans, 40, assistant rector of St. Chrysostom's and religious editor of the Chicago Tribune. He had invited them to his cenacle in an "attempt to feel the pulse of young theological students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christ Unpopular? | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...continued only by watching the master's beat in the wings. Some even reacted like the Londoner who said it was a "threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions . . . [standing for] all the unnamable horrors of revolution, murder and rapine, and should have been dedicated to Dr. Crippen, the dentist who murdered seven wives in their baths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Rite | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Incorrect. Dr. Crippen murdered one wife, buried her in a cellar. England's famed brides-in-the-bath (3) murderer was the late George Joseph Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Rite | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Paul Crippen, engineering student at Northwestern University, has one plane he built himself for $800 and a second he bought second-hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air Flivvers | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...places to go " in London. It contains waxwork models of celebrities-a long line of Kings and Queens, famous criminals, Nelson, Napoleon, Roosevelt, Wilson, Crippen. All the models are dressed in the costume of their times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Madame Tussaud's | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

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