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...woman was identified as Mrs. Susie Reich, a Polish refugee. Someone had overpowered her and stolen her jewelry, and the noise of her struggling had been drowned by the radio. Adhesive tape had been plastered as a gag over her face and her head wound up in a flowered scarf and a Paisley muffler. She had suffocated. Police rounded up Eli, Madeline and Cullen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Guy's Lady | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...every costume the feminine audience could wish, from breech clout to dress suit. Prepossessing young Macdonald Carey is the editress' eventual sweetheart. And Danny Kaye is very funny as a pansy fashion photographer who in true Cecil Beatonish style photographs a suit of armor with a blue chiffon scarf wrapped around its metal neck and stuffed doves perched on its shoulders. In the circus dream he scores the comic hit of the show with a jabberwockian song consisting entirely of the names of Russian composers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...sort of army of non-fighters who must take their punishment and hold -with self-help and Government help. Among the other millions of London housewives who no longer bother with hats or have lost them amid the debris of smashed homes, Mrs. Winston Churchill tied a spotted scarf over her head and went about the streets with the Prime Minister. "Now, there's a lydy for you!" chirped an appreciative cockney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Civilians in Battle | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

After eight weeks of freedom, spent in Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital, Scarf ace Al Copone, still under treatment for paresis, moved to a private home in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...CHIFFON SCARF-Mignon G. Eberharf - Doubleday, Doran ($2). Double death comes to a St. Louis family when they attempt to sell the plans for a new airplane engine. Serialized in Ladies Home Journal, this brightly finished tale is unusual for the skill with which its suspense is steered through a heavy swell of romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Mysteries | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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