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Louder Than Words. In Phoenix, police officially charged a baseball umpire with being a robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Criminal Mind. In Houston, two men robbed Mary Burns of $5, quickly handed back a $2 bill, explained that it might bring them bad luck. In Long Beach, Calif, a robber socked Store Proprietress Cecilia Dodgion, tied her up, gathered $104 worth of vitamin pills, gave his victim a kiss, explained, "I must be nuts," departed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1943 | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

This Hurts Me ... In Chicago, for the third time the same robber tried to hold up Storekeeper Theodore Sher, who shot him dead, explained defensively: "I just couldn't stand it to have that man rob me again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 18, 1943 | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

Curvilinear Cinemactress Joan Blondell got herself a fresh hairdo, a new fur coat, headed for Greenland and Iceland to entertain the armed forces. Manhattan socialite Edith Kingdon Gould, linguist (5), ex-child-poetess, 22-year-old great-granddaughter of the late, great Robber Baron Jay Gould, joined the WAVES, went off to train at Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Day of Days | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Country's Rabbits. But neither White nor Beazley could have been a hero without Enos Slaughter, mightiest of the Missouri robber barons. Though his teammates call him "Country"-because he came to the Cardinal tryout camp straight from the North Carolina backwoods-there is nothing slow about Slaughter. He is the second-best batter (.318) in the National League, is almost a Ty Cobb on the bases, has a magnetic mitt and a mighty arm (developed, he says, pegging stones at rabbits when he was a shaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Kids | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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