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...putters, hammer throwers, wrestlers, oarsmen, swimmers, divers, gymnasts, fencers, yachtsmen, horsemen, cyclists, boxers, officials, etc., etc., boarded the Roosevelt, planned to live aboard the liner until its return August 19. With the U. S. Olympic team went three athletes, not team members, crossing as stowaways. Famed Sprinter Frank Hussey hid in a bathtub, was removed to the brig, ransomed by friends on board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...entertained President Coolidge in Washington only lately (TIME, May 14)-that none of the Ringling officials was even suspected of connivance. At Malone, the Federal men confiscated some 4,000 bottles of prime Canadian whiskey, gin, wines, beer. Acrobats had it hidden in their kimonos. A Spanish couple hid it beneath their infants in an upper berth. The trains were run on a siding for the search and as word spread of what was happening, bottles showered out of the car windows. Possession cost $5 per bottle in fines. After twelve hours of searching, the Malone inspectors were satisfied they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Circus | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Orleans cabarets, she met several sailors. Inspired already with her calamitous yearnings, she cultivated their friendship. Then one early morning, clad in a uniform which she had borrowed from one of them by saying she wanted it for a masquerade party, rowdy Ramilda sneaked onto the Sands and hid herself and suitcase in the torpedo room. There, several days later, she was discovered; first by a sailor, then by officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Sailor's Girl | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...failure of the rebellion was the beginning of a tragic and surprising war; battles were fought under the smoky sky, fugitives hid in the soft stillness of the mountains. A succession of dark generals led their ebony soldiers to cruel and bewildering victories. Ugly Toussaint, who beat a Napoleonic army, was captured and sent far away to die. Clumsy Jean Jaques Dessalines made himself emperor of the black island and imported two ballet masters to teach him how to dance; before he had time to learn, a soldier murdered him. Henry Christophe, the billiard marker, during all this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: King Christophe | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Sunday had come to St. Louis from West Frankfort, Ill., famed gang battlefield, of whose alleged viciousness he said this to St. Louis citizens: "There's just as good folks up there as ever lived . . . a lot of St. Louis crooks went down there and hid behind machine guns. . . ." On leaving St. Louis, Evangelist Sunday will proceed to Iola, Kan., for six weeks of pouncing, bouncing, trouncing preaching; then he will go to Greenville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Week Revivalist | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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