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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mentalist" Joseph Dunninger, who can be reached through Frances Rockefeller King of the NBC's Artists' Bureau at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, has under lock & key messages left with him not only by Edison, but by Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, who said they would try to communicate them to the living after they died. Anyone who receives the message through spiritualistic communication which tallies with the one Edison left can win $10,000 from Mr. Dunninger and the Universal Council for Psychic Research, of which he is chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...ever. Most critical battle of the week was to the southeast of Bilbao, the Basque capital which Rightist General Emilio Mola was determined to storm or starve out. Backward and forward swung the bloody struggle for the heights of Saibi Peak guarding the plains five miles from the key city of Durango. Besieged by land, blockaded by sea Bilbao's war-swollen population of 350,000 was reported eating cats and seagulls. Gritting his teeth, Basque President José Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube declared: "We are in good shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Cats & Seagulls | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Night Key (Universal) refreshingly presents famed Bogeyman Boris Karloff as a gaunt, lovable genius at electrical gadgets. Much of the picture's suspense comes from the expectation that he will suddenly revert to monster type. He never does, though he has plenty of provocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...then lets the burglar alarm function. When the Ranger guards arrive, the clocks are all crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help of his daughter Joan (Jean Rogers), a Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Acting on the Student Council resolution of last week a temporary committee, set up at that time, last night announced appointment of a permanent body to investigate the University's four key administrative problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dampeer Heads Student Body for Researches in Teaching System | 4/21/1937 | See Source »

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