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Sorrowful Yellow Men. Not half so happy were thousands of enemy aliens who did not fall into the FBI dragnet last week. In Los Angeles a 61-year-old Japanese, Takematzu Izumi, a resident of California since 1896, swallowed poison when he heard that Japan had attacked Hawaii. Said he: "I am ashamed...." In Seattle the principal of the Japanese Language School did not turn up for classes. Newsmen called to find out what had happened. Said a stoical Japanese woman: "So sorry. FBI have the principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Roundup | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...starts off with a frivolous seance that backfires by conjuring up a man's beautiful, mischievous late wife, who floats spectrally through his household, splashing delicate poison on his second marriage. Since the daffy medium who contrived the lady's visit lacks the power to terminate it, in no time things are dramatically at sixes and sevens, though artistically neat as a pin. For Playwright Coward, standing at the juncture of three yawning precipices, nimbly keeps his balance. He makes his preposterous menage seem entirely natural. He maintains so light a touch that Death, far from being morbid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...easily explained was a curious collection found in Florrie's trunk and in various places in the house: a package labeled "Arsenic-Poison for cats," three bottles with arsenic in them, a rag and a handkerchief impregnated with arsenic, other lethal odds & ends which doctors said were enough in sum to poison 50 people. Florrie was convicted, sentenced to be hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Cat Woman | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...parties in shortwave affairs got in harness together on a working program. The net of it: henceforth the Truth sent to short-wave listeners by the U.S. would not be sent at random, but would hit at Nazi propaganda as purposefully and quickly as an antidote hits at a poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The U.S. Short Wave | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

During prohibition, the master got his degree as "bootlegger, counselor, and legal adviser to students." But his bootlegging was "entirely legitimate," since he imported his booze direct from Canada through pullman porter connections. Moreover, he always sampled the goods to make sure it wasn't poison before directing its flow toward 60 or 68 Mt. Auburn Street. "We were smart in those days," he reflects. "Now, we don't even know how to think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFILE | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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