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...Buenos Aires, terrified sextons, devout churchgoers, and two policemen found Guido Francveschini in the belfry of the church of Nuestra Señora de Buenos Aires. Lying on his back, with bell ropes tied to his feet, he was waving his legs in the air to ring the bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dopes | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Though it failed to kill, Daniel Flores' fusillade wrought damage. One bullet broke the already deeply scarred jaw of President Ortiz Rubio; another carried away part of the right ear and grazed the scalp of his wife, Senñora Ortiz Rubio; another wounded his niece, Señorita Maria Rosh; a fourth grazed Chauffeur Felix Galvan. Flying glass cut the President's secretary, Col. Hernandez Chazaro, and a friend, one Sostenes Garcia. There were two misses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Inauguration Without Assassination | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...Digestive Discomfort." Physicians of Baltimore's famed Johns Hopkins Hospital thumped and scrutinized the President-Elect, last week, paying particular attention to his stomach. Señora Rubio was inspected by other doctors. The rest of the President-Elect's party slept in 14 rooms at the Hotel Belvedere. In Mexico the public had been led to suppose that something fairly serious is the matter with the stomach of the man they have elected President. But Dr. Charles R. Sutrian of Johns Hopkins curtly dispelled this illusion. "Examination shows a certain amount of digestive discomfort," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...past five years been discreetly studying anthropoid intelligence for God, for country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks at Havana where a Se?ora Rosalie and a Se?ora Abreu have colonies of simians. Professor Yerkes' Almost Human (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925) reported his observations on ape intelligence. Chimpanzee Intelligence and Its Vocal Expressions is a related study. Last week he was in Africa collecting specimens for a purpose which Yale's President James Rowland Angell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

National Colored (at Bordentown, N. J.) ?men's singles, Edgar G. Brown of Chicago; doubles, Eyre Saitch of Harlem. N. Y. & Sylvester Smith of Baltimore: women's singles, Ora Washington of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titles | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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