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Second day of the trail the name of "Ella," which had been written on the wrapper of a pound of purloined butter, roused the court from its drowsiness. Captain Fleischer, a bachelor, explained that "Ella" was only a "trademark on Army butter." Two days later Mess Sergeant John Maresca rebutted this interpretation, testified that Fleischer had specifically ordered "one of each item of the menu of Thanksgiving dinner for his lady friend, Ella." Sergeant Maresca also revealed that Fleisher had been foolhardy enough to send a ham to Major Renn Lawrence, whose complaint led to Fleischer's court-martial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Icebox Raider | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...store fronts. Pittsburgh also makes Herculite, a glass which will resist temperatures up to 650°. Most spectacular Pittsburgh stunt came last month when Sergeant Frank Shannon, champion marksman of the Newark, N. J. police force, fired a round of Thompson submachine gun bullets at Night-Club Singer Ella Logan. Though only 30 feet from the "Tommy-gun," Miss Logan smiled, powdered her nose, survived. Between the singer and the Sergeant stood a sheet of Pittsburgh's bullet-proof glass, which is the same as safety glass, only more so. Instead of two layers of glass with one binder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Glass Week | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Ella C. Bond, 58, of Oshkosh, Wis., "Bluebird of the G. A. R.," niece of Civil War General Ambrose Everett Burnside; and Col. Ira R. Wildman, 85, Civil War drummer, of Danbury, Conn.; in Danbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...other hand, fusty, old Flower Hospital, which John D. Rockefeller helped finance before he thought of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, has had an unwieldy $4,000,000 ever since reclusive Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel died (TIME, March 23, 1931). The $4,000,000 is tied up in Manhattan real estate whose income is not enough for Flower Hospital to put up new buildings but is enough to pay Fifth Avenue Hospital's annual deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Like unto Like | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...very, very pretty Betty Lawford is a bit cinematic as the defeated tart and Frances Maddux does well although her main talent for singing naughty ballads is quite dragged in by the heels. Jane Bancroft (one of the local debbies) does rather nicely as Ella, the serving girl--a democratizing experience, no doubt. John Root's stage so is a magnificent variation on the duplex apartment idea...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/23/1935 | See Source »

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