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...detective, masterminded the case for the Daily News (his angle: "inside job"). U. S. Trucking Corp. was quick to certify the good characters of its robbed guards, promptly sent checks to all who had suffered loss, was happy that it was fully covered by theft insurance. Turning an unprecedented lemon into lemonade, theft insurance firms bought space on financial news pages to advertise their protection service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Record Haul | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...operating table by prisoner-nurses who are paid 5? a day. Sheets were spread over him so as to cover the scar of his old rupture operation, expose only his left leg. Just above the knee of that leg was an exceedingly painful lump the size of a lemon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sing Sing Surgery | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

California's annual midwinter orange festival in San Bernardino has its queen. The State's annual lemon show has none. The suntanned girls of San Bernardino who hope and pray to be Queen of the Oranges, will not compete for Queen of the Lemons. But in East Texas last week a trim 17-year-old belle of Jacksonville did not hesitate to come forward and be crowned Queen of the Tomatoes. By proclamation of Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, last week was the first "National"' Tomato Week, sponsored by the East Texas and Jacksonville Chambers of Commerce, blessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tomato Week | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

Another art show by non-professional artists escaping from their environment is this week's eighth annual exhibition of the New York Physicians' Art Club at the Academy of Medicine. Sole medical subject in the show was medical in name only-Vitamins, a composition of a lemon, oranges, a grapefruit, potatoes, filled whiskey and milk bottles, by Club Secretary Dr. Henry Amabric Bancel. Dr. Walter Beran Wolfe showed a polychromed terra cotta Self Portrait with black lips, a plaster pictorialization of his name which consisted of a bear with a W in his left paw astride a wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prisoners & Physicians | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Kremlin who, under adverse conditions, found eight coveys and several singles and finished fast and fresh. But the best brace of all, and one of the greatest runs in championship history, came on the final day; Oilman Walter C. Teagle's Norias Annie v. Doctor Blue Willing, a lemon-spotted pointer owned by L. D. Johnson of Evansville, Ind. Norias Annie is a black & white relative of famed Mary Blue, who won for Mr. Teagle in 1929 and 1931. She was gun- shy and bird-shy, a "hopeless case," when Handler Chesley Harris began her training. Doctor Blue Willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: On the Ames Plantation | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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