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...your April 20 TIME you published under Animals. "Atrocitv." I was instrumental in setting that incident before the public in that I reported it to the city editor of our Times-Star, an evening newspaper. I endeavored to run down the culprit, or culprits; the deed took place beside the river at Fernbank, but I was not persistent enough in my efforts: I had no success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...belongs to the school of clowns whose humor derives from ineffectuality; a certain eccentric excitability makes him sometimes hilariously funny. His gaiety is without grace; it lacks the thin, almost horrible insanity of the Marx Brothers and it is seldom frankly pathetic, like Chaplin's. He is a culprit from a comic strip and no one would be surprised if, when something hit him on the head, it gave the sound of "plop" or "zowie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...sitting in the audience of a vaudeville theatre is murdered. The performers in the theatre, a pair of magicians, are suspected of the crime and members of the audience are implicated. One of the magicians uses black magic and sleight-of-hand to find the real culprit. When The Spider was produced on the Manhattan stage four years ago, a fair proportion of the characters in it were seated in the pit of the theatre in which it was produced; this method of staging mystery plays became so popular that for a few months the lobbies of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...persons and personages involved, three stood out last week with special clarity. First there was the Reformer?pontifical Counsel Samuel Seabury of the Legislature's committee, lord high inquisitor into New York City officialdom. Second there was a grey, little old horse doctor named William Francis Doyle, the culprit of the moment, the witness through whom the Reformer hoped to get at the Ring. Third there was Judge Benjamin Cardozo, personifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Indian in the Woodpile | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...tactics have made him many enemies throughout his State, somehow got hold of Dr. Ochsner's confidential letter. Governor Long is ex-officio an administrator of Charity Hospital. As such he last month conducted a secret "trial" of Dr. Ochsner. Medical administrators of the hospital pleaded for the culprit, called his letter indiscreet, declared that "severe action would annihilate him." But hard-bitten little Governor Long said: "I have given Tulane University everything when asked for and have been complimented for what I have done. I should have absolute loyalty. . . ." Dr. Ochsner must get out of Charity Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Orleans Imbroglio | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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