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Germs for Billy. In various states, "Dr." Faiman has had other little brushes with the law. Apparently born in Riga, Latvia (or maybe Minneapolis), he was indicted as an abortionist in St. Paul in 1922. The case was dismissed because of "the condition and attitude of the complainant." In 1925, Faiman told a Chicago court that he had supplied typhoid germs to William Darling Shepherd for the purpose of murdering his rich young ward, Billy McClintock. Faiman got off by turning state's evidence. A witness testified during the trial that Faiman had operated an unsavory St. Louis "massage...
Changes of foehn-like abruptness have checkered Dr. Paul's political meanderings. When Hitler came to power, spectacled Dr. Paul divorced his Jewish wife, who was later sent to her death in the Riga concentration camp. In 1945, the Americans appointed Dr. Paul mayor of Gera in Thuringia. When the Russians took over Gera, Dr. Paul received them in flag-bedecked streets. He joined the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity Party and was soon appointed minister president of Thuringia...
...Riga Beach...
With regard to the scruples of a certain lady about the nude bathing on the Riga Beach [TIME, May 12] . . . may I inform you that the Riga Beach lies behind a natural wall, about 20-30 feet high, formed by sand dunes covered with Scotch pine-Pinus sylvestris...
...should like some information. In the April 14 issue, you stated that the Baltic people used to go swimming along the beaches of the Gulf of Riga, often in the nude-"the early part of the morning was reserved for men, the latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time...