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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recalling that three times during previous weeks medical kits belonging to Dr. Mattson had been stolen, police ventured the theory that these minor crimes were somehow connected with the kidnapping and perpetrated by someone, perhaps a former patient, bearing a grudge. Dr. Mattson was unable to think of anyone whom he had offended. With no clues at hand as to whether the kidnapper escaped by automobile or by boat across Commencement Bay, police and G-Men backed off the case for several days to allow Dr. Mattson to carry out Tim's instructions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tacoma Snatch | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...break the world record. He had already competed in four events that day; his .best previous time for 1,500 metres was 4 min. 47 sec. In a wildly exciting race, against Belgium's Boulanger, who, though the crowd of 80,000 did not know it, had no chance to beat his total, Morris finished first in 4:33.2. Disgusted with himself, he was walking off the track when officials called him back. An error in computing his earlier points meant that he had set a new world's decathlon record with 7,900 points. Currently returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Morris v. Owens | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

MORE complete than any previous volume of Franklin's writings, this compact book contains many hitherto unpublished letters and several selections which have not been widely distributed. The compilers, however, have shown excellent discrimination in their choice of excerpts from this most varied and voluminous literary output...

Author: By S. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 1/7/1937 | See Source »

...favor a correct application of the S.B., for almost three-fourths of the 1936 honors men concentrating in the sciences received A.B.'s. What last June's "laude" graduates did may be considered a fair representation of the tendency of those who graduated without honors both in 1936 and previous years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CASE OF ILLEGITIMACY | 1/5/1937 | See Source »

...hitherto notorious as Edward of Wales and as King Edward for his chronic absence from church, suddenly drove in on Sunday to the English Church of Vienna. He chatted at the door with U. S. Minister to Austria George Messersmith & wife, invited them to luncheon, but they had a previous engagement. Then, like abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II who incessantly takes part in divine service at Doom, abdicated King Edward VIII went to the lectern and in a clear, ringing voice read the second Scripture Lesson. It was about Biblical David (Luke II, 1-20), and the Duke has always been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woman of the Year | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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