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...Saturday in suburban Inglewood, a few miles from Los Angeles. Little Jeanette Stephens, 8, Melba Everett, 9, and Madeline Everett, 7, started off with sandwiches for a picnic in the park as countless children in countless cities have done on countless Saturdays. As afternoon wore on and they did not return, their mothers grew uneasy. When suppertime had come and gone, Mrs. Stephens sent her little boy Garth, 7, to the park to look for them. An hour later the parents called the police. Shortly after midnight a community search was on and the disappearance of the three little girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Three Little Girls | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Married-Rosa Melba Ponselle, 39, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Carle A. Jackson, Baltimore insurance man, son of Baltimore's Mayor Howard Wilkinson Jackson; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Engaged. Rosa Melba Ponselle, 39, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Carle A. Jackson, Baltimore insurance man. son of Mayor Howard W. Jackson; in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...TIME a great record by a great cow, Carnation Ormsby Butter King of 38,606.6 lb. milk and 1,420 lb. butter fat. But-The American Shorthorn Breeders Association, Chicago, Ill. claim for a Milking Shorthorn world's record for butter fat from the Australian Milking Shorthorn Melba 15th of Darhalara. Record 32,5221b. milk, 1,614 lb. butter fat. How about it? WEXTWORTH P. BLODGETT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Australian Melba, a Shorthorn, made her record in 1924. Carnation Co., owners of Holstem "Daisy," contend that Melba's record is "unofficial."-ED. Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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