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...Lovers' Lane in the outskirts of Norwalk, Conn., lived Theodore Humbert, a chorus man, and his friend Edward Charles Chapman, an interior decorator. When Chapman thought his heart disease would be fatal he deeded to Humbert a $95,000 estate. He recovered, planned to take Humbert to England to claim the property. Last week Humbert was found in the cottage on Lovers' Lane with his skull crushed in. Next day police found Chapman dead in a bathtub in a Boston hotel. Beside him were six empty veronal bottles. In his hand was a photograph of Humbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Coney | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...sense of what selections should be juxtaposed. The modern fad of the amusingly incongruous is exemplified by such mixtures as the "Weekend Book" where selections are grouped in compartments such as Great Poems, Hate Poems, State Poems, and so on ad absurdum. In the "Winter Miscellany" however Humbert Wolfe restrains himself to selections on the subject of winter and the result is a consistently pleasing volume whose charm lies in its maintenance of the wintry mood...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: BOOKENDS | 2/25/1931 | See Source »

...Humbert Wolfe himself is a poet whose work deserves its place beside that of the men he honors by including in this volume. I particularly liked the second stanza of his introduction to the Countryman's Winter, a slight thing perhaps, but to me a rather poignant expression of the effect of a country winter on the city bred...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: BOOKENDS | 2/25/1931 | See Source »

Died. Luigi Vittorio Fugazy, 92, Manhattan banker, champion of Italian immigrants, father of Fight Promoter Humbert Fugazy; after long illness; in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...kings: Kings of Sardinia Charles Felix (1821-31), Charles Albert (1831-49)-Kings of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II (1849-78); Humbert I (1878-1900), Vittorio Emanuele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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