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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Callers on District Attorney Dewey last week were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, underworld lawyer whose "squealing" testimony won the Hines case for Dewey, and Hope Dare, the redheaded showgirl, long his mistress, whom he married last fortnight. After posing protrusively for newscameras, Davis, whom Dewey detectives still guard night & day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leopard Hunt | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

All of a sudden the magazine was taken up by a bunch of sporting socialites and began going great guns. Oliver Davis ("Three Dagger") Keep, who had been promotion manager of The Condé Nast Publications Inc., bought control and, later joined by a rich college (Williams) friend named Archbold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gentlemen All | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

The Old Maid (Warner Bros.) is a drama of anonymous mother love, circa 1861-80, outwardly as dated and dusty as a daguerreotype. To bring Edith Wharton's old-fashioned story to life on Broadway four years ago required the highly finished services of Actresses Judith Anderson and Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

>Frank Kukuljevic, Ferenc Puncec and Demeter Mitic, Yugoslavia Davis Cup tennis team: the European Zone Final; defeating Germany's Henner Henkel, Rolf Copfert and Roderich Menzel (onetime Czech Davis Cupper); three matches to two; at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. During the doubles match, while Henkel & Menzel were beating Puncec & Kukuljevic, Yugoslavian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Police Reporter Kenneth George Bellairs returned from his vacation to the St. Louis police department, which he has covered, off & on, for one paper or another, since 1891. Son of a British Army captain who came to the U. S. to grow beans and ran the St. Louis zoo instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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