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Author of the letters is also an author of books (Letters of a Bohemian, Belle of Bohemia}. Her latest book professes to be the story of her life, begins with a newsgatherer of Emporia, Kan. named Graham discovering her, an infant, under a sunflower. He adopted her, lost her when, according to the book, she sought freedom for the stage by begging a passing stranger to marry her. He did. She left him, started on an international career which included four marriages and. according to the narrative, acquaintance with such statesmen as the late Theodore Roosevelt (who she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Mecca of Merriment | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...held the ball for kickoffs, chirped the signals, lay back as safety man, slapped the bigger boys on the back and his Pembroke prep school "Midgets" beat the Kansas City "Bearcats" 12 to 0 before and after the first half of the Iowa State-Kansas game at Lawrence, Kan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Just prior to Herbert Hoover's nomination, Editor White in his Emporia (Kan.) Gazette called him a capon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...Chicago coroner's jury, made Chicago's big crime news of the week. Prisoner Bell had been in gaol since June for robbery & murder. His friend Sullivan was jailed in July for the Patras murder, which he confessed. Traum is in the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. on other charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lingle, Darrow | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...been married three months ago to) Robert A. Elliott, Naval Reserve pilot. Excerpt: "If I have preceded you, do not grieve for me, but be content. Finish your work down here and make me proud of you. . . . And when you come I will welcome you. . . ." Other investigators at Irving, Kan., found that Ruth Alexander, 24, had been married twice before. Her second husband's divorce suit was still pending. Miss Alexander made an unofficial women's altitude record of 26,000 ft. for light planes last July, last month flew nonstop from Vancouver, B. C. to Agua Caliente (Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: No Lake Landings? | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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