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...much publicized and gushed-over, by sob sisters, Peggy Ann Landon, in a Cleveland restaurant famed for its good, high-powered beer. Wonder what bone-dry Kansans think of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Died. Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils ("Annie Laurie," "Winifred Black"), 73-longtime Hearstling, first and most-famed U. S. newspaper sob sister; of apoplexy following diabetes and shingles; in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan she developed into one of the most fabulous sob sisters of the gaudy, pre-War journalistic era. She covered many a killing in & out of Manhattan, sobbed her way in print through so much murder testimony that a courtroom bromide attached itself to her: "Dorothy Dix has arrived. The trial may now proceed." By 1908, Dorothy Dix's feature ("Dorothy Dix Talks") was appearing daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Decades of Dix | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Sweet Aloes (by Joyce Carey; Lee Ephraim, producer) is a good commercial mixture of pseudo-science and sob-stuff calculated to provide a lush, sentimental background suitable to the fragile beauty of British Actress Evelyn Laye, unseen on Broadway since her impersonation of another lady of sorrows in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. However, the play scarcely deserves the full ire of Walter Winchell, the New York Mirror's columnist-critic, who commented: "Sweet Aloesy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...reaches here at 7:30 p. m. My wife was in the other room, but when your speaker reached that incident of the broadcast, his hushed voice drew Mrs. Hinman to the radio, and I heard a sob. Mrs. Hinman was born in Yorkshire, England. I was born, and, for more than forty years, lived under the British flag, and we felt we had lost a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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