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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tabloid" to Italian-speaking Easterners and they think of the conservative Corriere d'America (circulation, 56,369), a terse, thoroughgoing little Manhattan daily founded in 1922 to print news, not girl and horror pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Corriere | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...while carrying no gun (London "bobbies," the world's best, are forbidden firearms). From the very first he saw excitement. In 1888 the Whitechapel District of London was being terrorized by the murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found murdered and mutilated with a knife. No one ever saw "Jack." The C. I. D. and Policeman Wensley gradually caught his accomplices but "Jack the Ripper" never was found. Timid English women still stiffen and pale when strange men address them in Whitechapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Proud were four pretty Eastern girls last week. At Hicksville. L. I., they performed the central rites at the opening of the Long Island Aviation Country Club, first of its kind in the U. S. Before several hundred socialites beneath variegated lawn umbrellas, each girl christened a club plane?Bunny, Squirrel, School Marm, Malolo. The girls were Eleanor Hoyt, daughter of Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (see above);* Emily Lawrance, daughter of Charles Lanier Lawrance (see below); Ann McDonnell, daughter of Vice President Edward O. McDonnell of G. M.P. Murphy & Co. (securities); Frances Reaves, daughter of John S. Reaves, chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Curtiss-Wright Roc | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...third of the 19th century had slipped by when, one day in Italy, a daughter was born to a man who later became Governor of Rome. At 16 she was described as "a beautiful young girl, high spirited, with the daring recklessness of a lad." She was called the Countess Annette Bentivoglio. At 26 she put away the world, entered the Poor Clare Convent in San Lorenzo. Thereafter she was known as "Mother Mary Magdalene." In time she journeyed to the U. S., founded a convent in Omaha, and one in Evansville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Candidate | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. gave his opinion last week of bathing beauty contests. It was: "No self-respecting girl wants to be paraded before a multitude and dished up before the public gaze." Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. last week advertised his new girl-show Show Girl. He said: "150 GLORIFIED GIRLS IN THE FLESH AND BLOOD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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