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TRAVELS IN TWO DEMOCRACIES-Ed-mund Wilson-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Records like Mark Sullivan's Our Times are valuable, as any competently edited newsreel is valuable. But, mechanics and editing aside, the strength and weakness of any newsreel is the man behind the camera. A purely objective view may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Subjective Camera | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Events are born as journalism, die as history. Journalist Mark Sullivan's Our Times is an attempt to delay the process, or at least to arrange the corpse's limbs decently before rigor mortis sets in. Journalist Sullivan knew the dear departed well, arranges the lights and shadows with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Near-Masterpiece-- | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Inspector Joseph Marcs of the local police came to examine the body. The pistol was still clutched in Wenzel Kokoschka's hand. As the inspector bent to turn the corpse over, rigor mortis caused the corpse's fingers to contract. Corpse Wenzel shot Inspector Joseph through the stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Rigid Wenzel | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Symptoms. Despite Secretary Stimson, the following symptoms of rigor mortis were evident last week:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beyond Human Aid | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

In France, too, a miracle was reported. Last week General Gaston de Sonis (1825-87), devout Catholic, daring soldier, veteran of African campaigns and of the War of 1870, was being considered as a candidate for beatification. The ecclesiastical tribunal which sat on his case ordered disinterment of his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Malden's Miracles | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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