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Because of this peaceful trend, Manila's Mayor Juan Posadas, plump and proud possessor of the title of "Comendador de la Real Orden de Isabel la Católica" conferred upon him by Spain, paid no attention whatever last week when he received an anonymous letter warning him that Manila would burn the following night. The police went to bed and slept as hard as usual. Suddenly in the early hours of the morning there was an explosion. Then another and another. Just how many bombs went off nobody knew. Five or six unexploded bombs were discovered. One bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Shattered Sleep | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...Brian Donlevy) traps him by publishing an advertisement announcing that someone else has won the prize and is about to sell the ticket. Before the trap is sprung, Benson has been seen shooting a train conductor (also a G-Man) and rousing the jealousy of his girl Jeanie (Isabel Jewell) with his attentions to Anne (Gloria Stuart). The cast is made up of the kind of people whose names look naked when exposed on marquees, but they are professional enough to convey that their antics are all in fun without impairing the occasional legitimate moments. One of the latter: Jeanie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...Trends toward the organization of large medical and health centres, sickness insurance and possibly state medicine," observed Isabel Maitland Stewart, Columbia University's professor of nursing education, "probably mean fewer free-lance nurses and more organizations in groups, fewer de luxe nurses catering to the wealthy and more serving the needs of the common people, fewer nurses for the sick and more working on the preventive end of the job." Despite the deadly seriousness of their meetings, the 10,000 nurses in Los Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nurses in Los Angeles | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...normal undergraduate. He became a Phi Beta Kappa and a Delta Kappa Epsilon almost simultaneously. He shortstopped for the baseball team and won the University and State tennis championships. He played a clarinet in the University band and fell in love with (and later married) Student Marion Isabel Watrous of Des Moines, Iowa. By the time President McKinley borrowed Michigan's president to be his Minister to Turkey, Son James Rowland was already an up-&-coming psychologist at Chicago, starting the career that was to lead him to one of the half-dozen great academic seats of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: President at Penult | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Born- To the Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 26, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonio 24; a daughter, their first child; in Rome. Name: Sandra Vittoria Beatrice Maria. Born. To James Roosevelt, 28; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt: their second daughter, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

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