Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, TIME sent queries to its correspondents in a dozen cities, including one to TIME'S Stockholm stringer, E. M. Salzer. He went to Uddevalla, Sweden, to talk to Lisa's family, and there learned that the family name, now Bernstone, had been changed from Anderson. Hardly had the story reached the newsstands, when Miss Fremd received an excited call from Lisa. "Is that true about my name being Anderson?" she asked. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted. I think it is the funniest thing in the world. I sent my father a cable and asked...
...when he was 40, Henry M. Blackmer had developed the habit of getting richer every year. He parted his hair in the middle, wore pince-nez, had a dignified squint in his right eye and cheerfully endured high starched collars which would have turned the blow of a Malay's kris. And he enjoyed spending money almost as much as stuffing it away in bank vaults...
...What we are hearing (if we hear anything at all) is something of far less dramatic import-a sort of airborne Agony Column, with a dash of the Court Circular thrown in: 'Will M'Bongo please return from the yampatch. All is forgiven . . .' 'Is there a witch doctor in the kraal?' 'The chief's brother-in-law, a person of the noblest character, will arrive tomorrow...
...told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...
Inquiry then turned to the unidentified shipper. The taxi driver who had brought her to the airport recalled that she had asked him to drive carefully, saying: "These aren't eggs I'm carrying." Investigators soon discovered that she was Mrs. Marie Pitre, a 41-year-old Quebec City housewife who had had notes endorsed by Albert Guay. One day last week Mrs. Pitre, told by Guay that the police were shadowing her, took an overdose of sleeping tablets, was rushed to the hospital. There, as she began to recover, she admitted that she had shipped the mysterious...