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...were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony he calmly called his city desk, gave the verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Unhappy Ending | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...writers of anything except bad checks have spent more time in jail than Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the world-famed Don Quixote. According to Biographer Tomas, it was bad luck, not bad management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about its author's life will be all news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cervantes | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Last Friday night, however, when the student returned to his room after a visit next door, he found one entire pane shattered to bits, and on the bed at the opposite side of the room, the missile in question. It was an old revolver, having a large antique value, if good for no other purpose. Stuck between the hammer and the chamber was this note: "Death tonight at the fatal hour of twelve. Your friend, the Phantom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Penitentiary Primo Camera paused in the yard, raised his monstrous arms over his head, clasped his hamlike hands, smiled a tusky smile in greeting to Prisoner Alphonse Capone. Up behind a second floor window Prisoner Capone returned the gestured greeting, hopped up & down excitedly, pressed his nose to the pane to watch the heavyweight champion amble out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 19, 1934 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

Trapped, Captain Rodney knocked out a window pane with his bare hands, gashing the arteries in his wrists. He handed Mrs. Rodney out to a 20-ft. jump which nearly broke her back. He then jumped himself and lay weltering in his blood until rushed to a hospital, where he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Premier Duke & Jackson | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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