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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring Pat Lyons found something. Having looked for but failed to discover a refrigerated slaughter chamber where the Butcher might have worked, he made friends with a circle of human scum in which two of the identified victims had moved: Mrs. Florence Polillo (No. 4), a prostitute, and Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cleveland's Butcher | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Christian Herald decided that, among rural clergymen in the U. S., Middletown's George Gilbert had most to tell about his life. Harper & Brothers, when their Horse and Buggy Doctor was a success last winter, had asked the Christian Herald to discover a parson as kindly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pastoral Parson | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Storms of Childhood. After examining a large group of neurotics, Freud was surprised to discover that they all had one thing in common: a frustrated sex life. The neuroses," he declared, "[are] without exception disturbances of the sexual function."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

And then there are the stars. Jack Pearl, forsaking der Baron Munchausen, appears as Rubbish, the foreign-born Hollywood director whose fame it seems is based on a movie he once made about a boy and a girl and a dike. Rubbish, we discover in the first scene, is filming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

Two fire engines arrived at the scene in time to discover small wisps of smoke curling out of the basement window of the Lampoon building. Upon entering the cellar, the smoke-eaters quickly stamped out the blaze. The only casualty suffered occurred when one of the firemen stepped on a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arson Hint in Lampoon Blaze Throws Suspicion On Publication Executives; Profit Motive Is Seen | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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