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DEATH PLAYS SOLITAIRE-R. L. Goldman- Coward-McCann ($2). News Publisher Asaph Clume and Reporter Rufus Reed again team up, crack the secret behind the shooting of a criminal lawyer. Tough, but not bogus tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Kidnapper Rufus McCain, Robbers Henri Young and William Martin surrendered. It took a bullet through both legs to stop Kidnapper Dale Stamphill. For Arthur ("Doc") Barker, kidnapping associate of Alcatraz' notorious inmate Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, it took a shot in the head and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Five Men | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...getting elected as he will be paid for serving ($1,511.12, plus $1,818 for five clerks' salaries and $18.75 for stationery). A Portland lawyer and one-time State Liquor Commissioner, Senator Barry worries more about his girth than a Senator ought to. His successor, full-time Senator Rufus C. Holman, will be the fourth Senator in the seat within eleven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In-Between Senators | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Tall 75-year-old Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, retired Haverford College philosophy professor, is a great & good member of a great U. S. sect, the Society of Friends. Two decades ago Quaker Jones helped found the organization he chairmans today-the American Friends Service Committee, universally respected for its good works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends' Service | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Friends could take in their stride such a job as helping to get the Jews out of Germany. Last fortnight Rufus Jones and two other Quakers - Headmaster George Arthur Walton of George School near Philadelphia, and Businessman D. Robert Yarnall of Germantown, Pa.- set sail on the Queen Mary, bound for Germany. They hoped to discuss the Jewish problem with German officials: with Adolf Hitler, even, if they could gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends' Service | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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