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...only thing I want." "And what is that, daughter?" "Oh, if only I could have a child by Hitler!" With many a melting, impressionable Gretchen now in this state of mind, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler was seated last week at the Olympic Aquatic Stadium when a buxom female from Norwalk, Calif., one Mrs. Carla George de Vries, darted through the supposedly impregnable barrier of the Dictator's black-jacketed S. S. Guards and thrust an autograph book into his hands. Obligingly Herr Hitler signed. Suddenly the crowd of 18,000 gasped as Mrs. de Vries appeared to grapple with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Next Best Thing | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...schools for 40 years, faced dismissal after confessing that she, too, was a Witness. In nearby Saugus seven young Witnesses were expelled. In Weymouth high school Witnesses Charles & Harold Newcomb, who claim to be descendants of Betsy Ross, staged a sympathy strike against "the Devil's emblem." In Norwalk. Conn., a 13-year-old Witness was barred from all school activities except classes. Suspended from the Lakewood, N. J., high school, a 16-year-old was given a week in which to reconsider his scruples. When a teacher snapped, "Why don't you salute the flag?" frightened Alma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Devil's Emblem | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Died. Moffat Johnston, 49, able, long-time Broadway actor (Twentieth Century, Within the Gates, Camille, Macbeth, Hamlet); following an appendectomy; in Norwalk, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Rosalie Rayner Watson, 36, wife and collaborator of famed Child Psychologist John Broadus Watson, founder of Behaviorism and vice president of J. Walter Thompson Co.. Manhattan ad-firm; after brief illness; in Norwalk, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 1, 1935 | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Augustus Field Beard, 101, oldest living Yale graduate (Class of 1857), oldest living Christian minister in the U. S.; of old age; in Norwalk, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1934 | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

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