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...than sales figures and telegraph tolls. One Newark trucking firm has equipped all its trucks with radios, on the theory that Stan keeps night drivers from drowsing. When a murderer last year eluded the New Jersey police and hit for the highways, Stan sounded the alarm between recordings of Mexicali Rose and The Very Thought of You; within 15 minutes a lunchwagon proprietor had the fugitive cornered. Anxious parents like to have Stan broadcast his all-is-forgiven patter to runaways. To date he has brought 17 back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Married. Hedy Lamarr (real name: Hedy Kiesler Mandl), 24, sultry Viennese cinemactress (Extase, Algiers'); and Gene Markey, 43, cinema producer; both for the second time; in Mexicali, Lower Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...ABOARD, Rock Island Golden State Limited, eight forty-five, for Excelsior Springs, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Dalhart, Santa Rosa, Carrizozo, Alamogordo, El Paso, Douglas, Chandler, Phoenix, Palm Springs, Mexicali, Calexico, Agua Caliente, San Diego, Los Angeles and all points in California. . . . The train is now ready on Track 10 . . . Golden State Limited. . . . ALL ABOARD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Train Callers | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

Married. Tom Mix, 52, cinema cowboy; and Mabel Hubble Ward, 28, circus aerialist who last year made 300 one-armed revolutions on a high bar without protecting nets (a world's record); in Mexicali, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...desert with escape possible only for three, which three would you save? Last week came word of an actual party of seven, much like Mr. Edison's-including a 16-year-old mother and her baby-whose bus broke down crossing; the desert between Nogales and Mexicali, Mexico. After wandering five days, the mother, baby and two others died. The three survivors were discovered raving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bright Boy | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

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