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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominican Republic had it worst. Like all the island's north coast the city of Matanzas got a hard jolting. But the tidal wave that followed the shock was the real killer as it swept into town and village. In one place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Big Rattle | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...late grocery tycoon, Frank Munsey, buyer and killer of newspapers, hired him for the New York Sun, assigned him to "go out and find out what is the matter with America." Then, in 1923, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson "bought me a very fancy lunch at the Ritz," offered him the managing editorship of a magazine to be called Liberty. Davenport said he didn't know anything about editing, Patterson said: "That's fine; then you've nothing to unlearn. Go right to work." Two years later, after being told that "no one would be annoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In a Corner, on the 13th Floor | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...killer of U.S. children is rheumatic fever. It is not only one of the biggest mysteries in medical science; it is one of the most neglected. Last week one of the most thorough campaigns yet mapped against the disease got under way at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. Directing the work were two well-matched experts: Dr. Francis Schwentker, 42, new head of the Hopkins pediatric staff who has just finished eight years of research on strep infections, and Dr. Helen Taussig, 48, head of the Hopkins Children's Heart Clinic and a famed authority on "blue babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crippled Hearts | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Last week, with the killer still uncaught, Bishop Socche decided to invoke an unusually severe measure of church discipline. He placed San Martino and the surrounding region under an interdict. He thundered from his pulpit that unless police promptly solved this murder "by the children of Cain" he would tell the whole world of "the abject terror that weighs down on our countryside. . . . Should someone kill your bishop . . remember that [he] fell because he wanted [to end] conditions imposed on the majority by a few criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bells of San Martino | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...Rayner, the 62-year-old blacksmith of Carlton-in-Coverdale, was tired. All day he had tracked the killer who prowled the crags and moors of the North Riding; in ten days the victims numbered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Killer | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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