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...Panama, he saw a "dare-devil," acting on a wager, light his cigar from a candle on the high altar of the Cathedral Church of San Juan de Dios, while 50 priests were conducting mass before 3,000 communicants. The sacrilege precipitated riots in which many persons were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Benefactor of Science | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...lifeguard on the prow of the nearer launch dove as the body appeared, floating head down in the water like a rug over a clothesline. Rescued and aboard the launch the dare-devil diver regained consciousness, complained of chills. Then he discovered that his back was broken, his body paralyzed from the waist down. With him in the boat were his wife, his mother, the lifeguard, and reporters and photographers from the San Francisco Examiner. There was no doctor. Bad enough-but then the launch's engine refused to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sad Stunt | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

More through circumstance than anything else, Mr. Sheean early acquired a reputation as a dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding...

Author: By H. V. P., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/23/1935 | See Source »

...Higginsville, Mo. some 30 years ago who was willing to try anything once or maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians. In the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Arrest of a Hero | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...Dare-Devil. In Munich dare-devil Count Anton Arco-Vally who in 1919 assassinated the then Socialist Premier of Bavaria but was set free in 1927, said candidly last week that he now intends to assassinate Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Just before the Chancellor arrived by plane in Munich-traditional Fascist headquarters -the Count was placed in a cell, still firmly maintaining that he will assassinate Herr Hitler. Just after the Chancellor left for Berlin, Munich's Police Chief claimed to have prevented an attack on Handsome Adolf's life by three men who deposited three hand grenades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Scared to Death | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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