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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A grizzled old man of 71 walked slowly down the steps of Charlestown (Mass.) State Prison, looking neither right nor left at staring crowds. He wore a grey baggy suit, a flannel shirt, a soft cap, carried a small paper package. His face was set in hard, unhappy lines. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Butcher's Butcher | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

On the bright sands and in the bright water at Cape Gris Nez (grey nose), France, were, last week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Channel | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Unusually eventful, a little saddened, was last week's opening by the death of James Rowe. Not to most jockies, trainers, nor even to many a famed sport king himself had come the fame that came to Harry Payne Whitney's 72-year-old trainer. A jockey at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Saratoga | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

No isolated cases of inebriated homicides were these. Nor was Mrs. Pantages' killing, if she was drunk as charged, strange. For decades women have been tippling as heavily as men. and in great numbers. In England and Wales, for example, as far back as the beginning of this century two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drunkenness | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

The same week that "G.E.'s" directors went cruising, directors of Brunswick- Balke-Collender Co. elected Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson) to their board. This was not done because they pined for entertainment to alleviate the tediousness of meetings, nor alone for the goodwill that Singer Jolson will bring to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Yachting & Singing | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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