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...London. Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer of 1942 (with four victims); the Vampire, who killed at least nine between 1944 and 1949, and ceremoniously drank a glass of each victim's blood. Now there was the Strangler of Notting Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Strangler of Notting Hill | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...violence and sensuality, set out in the glares and black shadows of fin de siecle romanticism. Singing in clipped, high-tension German, lustful Lulu causes one violent death after another among her helpless lovers. Then the pace slackens and she moves sonorously toward her own destruction hy Jack the Ripper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Off the Record | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Midfielder Ripper Lynch has returned to the second midfield after missing Saturday's game. Munro will play Pete Brooke and Bill Graham with Lynch, moving Al Sawyer to a fourth midfield. This newly created midfield will be composed of Sawyer, Godfrey Birkhead, and Laurie Otis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Faces Weak M.I.T. Squad Today at Tech | 5/2/1951 | See Source »

Midfielder Bill Graham reported to the Crimson squad this week after a thesis stint, and Munro will start the lanky senior in the second midfield in place of Ripper Lynch, who will be taking a Law School exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Lacrosse Plays Springfield; Freshman Ten Meets Tabor Away | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...half, but shackled the scoring punch of the first two units by keeping them in only two minutes at a time as against four minutes for the third and fourth groups. Each of the midfields collected one score in the first half on shots by Dick Post, Dave Waring, Ripper Lynch, and Ed Thayer...

Author: By Bayley F. Mason, | Title: Lacrosse Team Beats UNH 10-4; Subs Given Workout | 5/18/1950 | See Source »

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