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...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 »

...From the Graphic, Gauvreau was hired by Hearst's fabulous Albert J. Kobler, publisher of the Mirror then founded to beat Captain Patterson's Daily News. Kob ler was "a well-read, intelligent man" who talked like Sam Goldwyn. ("This tabloid business is not all rag, tag and cocktail.") After making millions for Hearst, he died with less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tabloid Editor's Confessions | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...been my pleasure to listen, and his style is distinctly New Orleans, if we must stylize music. . . . It is probably apocryphal, but I have heard that George can lie flat on his back on the floor, permit a man to stand on his stomach, and then will play Tiger Rag on his trombone with his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Berlin last week arrived tough-faced young General Agustin Muñoz Grande, a few days ahead of his rag-tag-&-bobtail Spanish volunteers who will help Germany fight Russia. This Spanish response to Adolf Hitler's call for a crusade against Communism was not important as a gift of men (the Germans will have to equip the Spanish volunteers). Far more important was Hitler's success in turning Spain from a sullen suppliant to an open opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Franco Talks Tough | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...once ranking as the French LIFE with a circulation of 2,500,000, has been taken over by the Germans, published as an "ersatz" called La Semaine. Seized also was his Marie-Claire (French Ladies' Home Journal, with circulation of 1,250,000), and supplanted by a Nazi rag called Pour Elle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: French Object Lesson | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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