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Routine police investigation was fruitful of few essential facts. At the home of her mother and stepfather (a Chicago hotelman named Marino Bello whom sleek Mrs. Carpenter had married after a divorce from her first husband), Jean Harlow told detectives that she and Bern had dinner at home the night he shot himself. Afterward she had gone to spend the night at her mother's house because her stepfather was going fishing and her mother wanted company. Bern was expected to follow, but instead he telephoned to say that his headache was worse and he pre ferred to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Death in Hollywood | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...Sleek, soft-spoken Chancellor Franz von Papen, whose most violent gesture is frequently to take off and twirl his eyeglasses, thunderstruck the world last week by a series of provocative acts, all performed with utmost urbanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Uber Alles! | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh Mary Sleek, 23. clad only in a veil, rushed into the street, hailed a milkman, ordered him to drive to the police station, told police she had shot her husband through the foot because he refused to apologize for coming home late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Father | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...telegraphed, even in code. Stubborn Wang remained in hiding in the French concession at Shanghai, refusing to withdraw his resignation or to stick so much as the top of his head out of his hole. All negotiations with Chiang's representatives he left to his small, sleek wife who rushed busily in a limousine from his hiding place to her hotel and back again. Soon correspondents thought they knew what Chiang Kai-shek was planning. In the past 50 years China has experimented with every sort of government known to the western world: absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, republicanism, communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Almond-Eyed Fascismo? | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...husband is Adolphe Menjou, sleek veteran of a thousand mannered comedies. He knows how to express utter satisfaction, when he learns of his wife's defections, by nibbling on an apple core. She, Joan Marsh, has an extraordinary petulance. When asked if there is anything in the world she really likes, she replies: "Yes. The roller-coaster at Coney Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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