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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case which was published by La Presse (Paris mob journal). The details given by La Presse were such that they seemed to have come from Exile Blackmer himself. La Presse said that when Blackmer's passport was taken from him last year on a train between Nice and Marseilles, the U.S. consular agent who obtained the passport did so by the trick of impersonating a French police official. La Presse said that the agent slipped the passport out the train window to a colleague on the platform. La Presse said that the colleague on the platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fugitive Blackmer | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Married. William C. De Mille,' 50, cinema-director (What Every Woman Knows, Nice People) ; and Clara Beranger, 42, scenario writer (Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde); in a Pullman drawing room, at Albuquerque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...Dollar Steamship Co. (San Francisco), reached New York on the President Van Buren, rested from his fourth trip around the world in five years. Newsgatherers told him his line will equip its new ships with airplanes. He wagged his square white beard with approval. "It's a nice idea," he grunted, "for people in a hurry. I have never ridden in an airplane. I do not intend to." Widow Roosevelt, Parson Cadman, Producer Anderson, Editor Lorimer, with 1531 fellow-passengers, arrived on the Majestic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Good though the Tunney-Heeney exchange of pleasantries was, people debated whether Promoter Rickard would get another million-dollar gate. Said Tunney: "Rickard is a nice fellow and a capable man, but I think sometimes he has gone million-dollar daffy. ... I think he could do something for the business if he would reduce prices and purses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snooze | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...nice to look at-a lean little body and all dressed up in rakish clothes that nobody had ever seen before. Men said she was fast; but she was no girl for rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Spain | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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