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...nearby park they stalked a group of wet-nosed children at play. Advancing cautiously from the rear Mr. Takahashi suddenly held his mirror before the chief sniveller's startled face. The boy turned, discovered Crusader Takahashi smiling benignly over his tabard, holding out a paper handkerchief. Hypnotized, the sniveller accepted it, trumpeted dutifully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Yamagata Trumpeter | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...clock, Publisher Black's valet looked for him in the saloon, in his cabin, on deck. There he found his employer's handkerchief. He ran to the bridge to tell Capt. John M. Kelley. The Sabalo put about. Foot by foot a searchlight's bright shaft swept a circle about the idling yacht, found only its own zig-zag reflection. (The owner's yachting cap was fished from the sea two days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mystery Plunge | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...life of Joan Crawford, a girl addicted to the incautious pleasures and frail moral standards of the East. She marries a cowboy, "repents, is on her way back to New York when her train is held up by cowpunchers masquerading as bandits. Finding that the man with a black handkerchief over his face who carries her off is her husband, she experiences a change of heart. Composer Nacio Herb Brown has contributed songs that are chilly parlor phantoms of real cowboy melodies. Cliff Edwards does a little singing. Best shots: Miss Crawford's camel's hair coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Karl Koski, 30, Finnish carpenter, with a handkerchief over his bald head, clutching his sweater cuffs to keep his hands warm, passing through a brush fire and a field composed largely of Irishmen and other Finns; a national championship marathon (26 mi., 385 yds.), run around Silver Lake on Staten Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...Howard Wyre to change 20 dimes into two $1 bills. This transaction completed, the gypsies offered to tell Teller Wyre's fortune. Amused, he complied with their requirements, took a $1,000 stack of bills from his drawer, placed his hand upon it. One fortune teller draped a handkerchief over the teller's hand, muttered unintelligible words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Able Bimbo | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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