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Utrecht sailed on to Boston, thence toward New York. At 6:55 on the last night out, Nita Spector knocked on the door of Cabin 7, called Lynn for dinner. The secretary replied that she was not feeling well. A steward knocked again at 7:05; he heard only quiet sobbing and left. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Spector returned to Lynn's cabin with the Utrecht purser. The cabin was empty, and Lynn Kauffman was not again seen alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: End of the Romance | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Bounce of Prevention. In San Angelo, Texas, Nita Yates bought classified space in the Standard-Times to warn: "I will not be responsible for any checks signed by me this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ. terrible-tempered, anticlerical novelist, was looking for a female lead for the movie of his novel. Blood and Sand, when at a party he met pious, vixen-toothed Actress Nita ("Nixie") Naldi, who screamed forthwith: "You Bolshevik! You heathen! . . . You worm! You Pagan! You anti-Christ!" Ibanez shrilled back so excitedly that his -'upper plate fell out of his mouth into Nixie's bosom." Whereupon the hostess, "who had hoped for a stimulating evening, but not this stimulating, quickly reached down into Nixie, pulled out the teeth, rinsed them in the punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadows from a Lunarium | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...Tacho used to test his foes' veracity with a magneto-powered shocking device, la maqui-nita (the little machine), wired to the victim's testicles. "Hell," Tacho once said, "the damned thing isn't so bad. I've tried it myself-on my hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: The Champ is Dead | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...Trial Offer. In Media, Pa., Magazine Solicitors Nita Eubank and Joan Doyle were charged with larceny and false pretenses after detectives testified that Pig Farmer Stanley Blosinski had signed three checks for $1,752, ordering enough magazines "to last him 150 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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