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Said a timid voice inside: "Did you say you're the law?" It was the voice of a Mr. George Weinberg, who was living with Dixie and his doxie in their hideout. Mr. Dewey had been looking around for Mr. Weinberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dixie, Doxie & Dewey | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Famed Literary Hoaxer Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) started back to Manhattan after spending 20 months in a jungle hideout 30 miles from Santos, Brazil. When Miss Lowell sailed for Brazil she said she intended to become a Brazilian citizen. She built herself a brick house on a beach clearing backed by jungle, had herself appointed district nurse. One of her accomplishments was installing, as a sanitary measure, cement floors in the thatched-roof huts of the natives. In Rio de Janeiro, Hoaxmistress Lowell said she ministered so well to the natives they named her "Donna Joan, the Miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 6, 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Exiled at 15 because he knocked down a policeman while defending the Young Master in a brothel, Ivan got along fine in Siberia until he drove a corkscrew through the commandant's neck for making improper advances to him. At a fugitives' hideout he was petted by a beautiful Swedish girl named Hilda who lectured: "You are strange, you Russians. Your eyes are clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unofficial Russian Novelist | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...Jefferson Islands club, in Chesapeake Bay a few miles from Annapolis, is a onetime bootleggers' hideout which 90 wealthy men like Breckinridge Long, Winthrop W. Aldrich, Herbert Fleishhacker, Owen D. Young, August A. Busch Jr., Floyd B. Odium and Franklin Roosevelt remodeled as a bachelor club for shooting, fishing, escape from heat. Any club member can take the place over to give a party, giving advance notice so that members not invited will not be inconvenienced. At the three-day party staged by Member Roosevelt last week, Members Odium, Busch, Young, etc. were not present, for the gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visiting Week | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...writer is convinced that John Stink never lived in a tree. It was his custom to hang his few utensils in a tree when he left a hideout. In fact this writer was once a member of a young hunting party that shot holes through his crude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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