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...their gallery of women there is Alice, the professional criminal, whose paternal ancestors were drunkards and thieves, whose maternal ancestors were oversexed. Alice, beautiful redhead, began to lie and steal almost from babyhood. At 18 she was a shoplifter of considerable note. A reformatory sentence did Alice no good. At 35 she is "a crafty, thoroughly experienced criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIME: Why Girls Go Wrong | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Trader Horn in Africa. In 1928 Edwina Booth, a lithe, lively, insistent blonde, was earning an occasional $7.50 per day as a Hollywood extra. Director W. S. Van Dyke of M-G-M wanted "a milk-white blonde with a brunette's temper, or better yet a redhead's." He recalled that Edwina Booth had "a temper like a spanked cat." She got the job and a contract for $100 per week. Options increased this to $150 a week at the end of a 20-month contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trader Horn's Goddess | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...Rudolph the 125 necessary to win game and world's championship. More astonishing than Rudolph's victory was the complete disintegration of handsome, suave Ralph Greenleaf, who had won the championship twelve times. He took his first game handily, then faced George Kelly, a 25-year-old redhead from Philadelphia who won the national championship which preceded tast fortnight's play. Although he had scored a high run of 125 and had run out a game in two innings during the national championship, Kelly was so gloomy over his chances against Greenleaf that he went outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...CASE OF COLONEL MARCHAND- E. C. R. Lorac-Macanlay ($2). The Colonel, a "womanizer." is dead after tea with a redhead. Pearls, a bastard and a decomposed cat hang the miscreant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Churchill's Churchill | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

Leader of the July strike was a young Irish redhead named Martin Ryan. He was president of the U. M. W. local at Colonial No. 4 mine of H. C. Frick Coke Co., U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary. His glib influence over fellow workers was greater than that of Leader Lewis whose code activities in Washington Miner Ryan distrusted. He harangued the men out of the pits when Lewis implored them to stick. He was the last to consent to a compromise with the operators. As delay followed delay on the code, he blew hot words on the miners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Coal Codified | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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