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...people who like to argue subtle questions, an event last week at Lima, Ohio, furnished ideal debate. The ques-tions suggested were: Can a madman be heroic? Can a hero be mad? The event was this: George Remus, one-time Illinois lawyer, then millionaire Ohio bootlegger, then convict, then insensate wife-murderer, who was judged guiltless but mentally insecure in Cincinnati (TIME, Jan. 2), and who was confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In a Madhouse | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...Lima, Peru, a large bull looked about him and saw Luis Romero, Peruvian cinemactor, demonstrating his horsemanship. With a loud bellow, the bull made for Luis Romero, flipped him off his horse, pawed and gored him until men arrived who rescued Luis Romero and tried to calm the bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bull v. Romero | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...virtue of a 12 to 0 victory over the Smith Halls football team. McKinlock Hall yesterday took the lead in the interdormitory football league. J. A. De Lima '31, of McKinlock, scored the first touchdown on a long pass, followed by a 40-yard run. P. W. Mahady '34 made the second tally on a line buck at the end of a long drive down the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McKinlock Tops Smith | 10/28/1927 | See Source »

...Lima, Peru, a man, drunk & sleepy, fumbled at the latch of an enclosure at the zoo. He wanted to go to sleep. So did a camel in the enclosure, and killed the man. No one knew the man's name. (Camels bite as well as kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Camel v. Man | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...engine trouble. The cripples were mended, but the San Antonio again fell behind with engine trouble before Guayaquil, Ecuador, was reached. The others flew on, the San Antonio following as soon as a new Liberty motor reached her by tug from Panama City. The San Antonio was at Lima, Peru, when the advance planes crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Diamond of Death | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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