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...plot was tailor-made: two Navy veterans, cruising the Caribbean in a 75-foot yacht, acquired a sloe-eyed little belly dancer from Toledo. Her name was Patricia Schmidt, but she had wiggled her way along the honky-tonk circuit from Chicago to Trinidad as "Satira." When she moved aboard, to share Mee's cabin, his pal Charles Jackson obligingly moved to another. One day Mee told her to pack up; his wife was coming down from Chicago. They fought, Patricia shot Mee, and a few days later he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Satira, Tirana & Mee | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...apologies to the Crockers, and a feeling of pity for the citizens of that Hollywood community who evicted them. Such an act is disgraceful. ... I hope the Crockers will not judge our judicial system by the Aryan decision of Judge Ruben S. Schmidt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Five Malmo elephants also found a loyal friend in their trainer, Hugo Schmidt, former employee of the German-owned Carl Hagenbeck circus. When Sweden's Government ordered the elephants sold as alien property, Hugo promptly turned them loose on Malmo's streets. Running wild, they broke lampposts, smashed windows right and left and generally terrified the inhabitants until Schmidt got them rounded up. "Sweden," sobbed Trainer Schmidt as his beasts were taken in charge, "is making a great mistake. Those elephants love each other. If they are parted, they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Situation in the Animal Kingdom | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Last week Superior Court judge Ruben S. Schmidt handed down his decision. Mr. Crocker, a true "Caucasian," could stay. Mrs. Crocker and her daughters would have to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Nothing Personal | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Ridge Observatory, 25 miles North-east of Cambridge in Harvard Township, was established as a more likely site for the systematic photography of the Northern skies. Today, armed with a Schmidt Camera--advantages; better image over larger field, astronomically speaking short (one half hour) exposures, revealing stars down to nineteenth magnitude--the staff at Oak Ridge is aiming at a complete analysis of the Milky...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: College Observatory Slates Four-Day Centennial Celebration AS U.S. Scientists Gather to Honor Astronomic Leadership | 12/6/1946 | See Source »

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