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Storm signals from across the seas give Hollywood an excuse to present a new version of "Dawn Patrol," first presented in 1930. The war drama, now at the Metropolitan, combines the usual thrills of aerial combat with a psychological study of a junior officer's hatred for his superior. Between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

Lady of Le Mars

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lady of Le Mans | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

For a decade the citizens of placid little Le Mars, Iowa (pop. 4,700) have been puzzled by the goings on of tall, statuesque Mrs. Maybelle Trow Knox. Her neighbors knew she was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lady of Le Mans | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

As county chairman of the W. C. T. U. in the 1920s she had led a series of violent raids until she was sued for smashing up a soft-drink parlor. She was also imprisoned for a year for trying to collect $10,000 on a forged note from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lady of Le Mans | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

More suspicious than most were two reporters from the Le Mars semiweekly Globe-Post, who tried to get a picture of 91-year-old Mrs. Trow on Election Day, were refused. When they returned with policemen and broke into the house, they found Mrs. Knox ill in bed, no trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lady of Le Mans | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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