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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bespoke a grotesque mind, made him different through life. A man of wealth, he indulged his idiosyncratic taste for cruelty and his incongruous love of good etchings. He liked to choke old ladies. He cut the tongues from the mouths of his three Japanese servants. Mr. Crispin has a son whose father-fixation is so unshakable that he agrees to be the nominal husband of a girl whom Mr. Crispin wants to torture. An impulsive young Englishman who loves her, plots to rescue her from the Crispin home. He is aided by an ineffectual young American (who supplies the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Born. To Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 75, son of the tenth President of the U.S., and Mrs. Sue Ruffin Tyler, a nine-pound son; in Richmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Born. To Frank G. Allen, Governor-elect of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Allen, a nine-pound son; in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Kelch of Luverne, Iowa, a nine-pound son. Alfred E. Smith Kelch. Alfred is the twentieth child. All have been born since 1903; 17 are living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...their own account. They bought, from Father Claus, one of the Hawaiian plantations which they had remade into an efficient enterprise. Suddenly Father Claus cut off all money for further development. The family row shook the banks of San Francisco, but at length they found the money. When Son Rudolph was 26, he sold the plantation and prepared to retire. He had gratified his ambition. He was then a millionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sugar & Spreckels | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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