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...sought comfort by burying her dark head in her mother's bosom. Her entire body was racked with sobs," said a despatch which made cinema fans chuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divorced | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Exceedingly apropos is a despatch from Tennessee, printed last week by the Republican New York Sun, staunch supporter of Candidate Hoover. The Sun's star political correspondent, George Van Slyke wired: "The religionists have thrown off all restraints in the last month and are working openly against Smith. The State is flooded with the anti-Catholic literature. More than fifty separate pamphlets and circulars have been spread broadcast. The extent of this movement has caused much comment as to its cost and who is footing the bill. Much secrecy prevails as to the method of circulation. The literature bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taft Letter | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...three years after that he wrote sporting articles for the Hudson Despatch; he lived with onetime editor of the New York Mirror Phil Payne who a year ago disappeared into the ocean with the airplane Old Glory. After the War he became an agent for a California fruit company. Now he is an independent food broker; a seedy little Irishman, his office in Manhattan is decorated with labelled cans and a print of The Reaper; it has this sign upon the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Runner Outrun | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Charles Augustus Lindbergh went to Mexico after animals and received special permission from the government to shoot two cinnamon bears and two machos berendes (wild bulls). From the Hal Mangum ranch came a despatch telling of Lindbergh's slaying an antelope from an airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horns & Huntsmen | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Brussels, Belgium, then London, lest he be again molested. To news colleagues he explained that Mr. Hearst himself gave him the secret document for transmission to the U. S. in the Hearst suite at the Hotel Crillon, Paris, on Sept. 18 last. French cable companies refused to transmit the despatch, so Correspondent Horan mailed it to London, whence it was put on the wire to Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whizz--the Police! | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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