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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Jimmy" Johnston has been entering the Amateur for several years, always starting well, seldom going far. In private life he is a St. Paul, Minn., broker with a big-brown-eyed wife named Betty and two children. Having gotten by Ouimet, who put him out at St. Louis in 1921...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pebble Beach | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Author Hurst's latest contribution to the heterogeneous U. S. saga has to do mainly with a family of Raricks upon whom life brings many blessings in the shape of a chain of 5? & 10? stores. Little weazened Father Rarick acquires the happy faculty of buying hairnets and celluloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hurst Papers | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

All of these battered old situations Author Hurst handles with a certain sureness that necessarily comes with tautology. Her acuteness of observation has enabled her to catalog the trappings of the rich and a few of their more obvious emotions. Her treatment of the story and the setting will facilitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hurst Papers | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

¶ At Joliet, Tommy Dowd ate dust and grabbed red-hot irons to prove insanity, then jumped out of an asylum window.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How To Break Prison | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

¶ At Germany's Reuss-Gera Prison, one Schaarschmidt, deprived of tools, chewed his way out through solid oak bars. When captured his teeth were found mere stumps, his jaws ape-size.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How To Break Prison | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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