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Keystone man in the Machado regime was Capt. Miguel Calvo, chief of Cuba's Secret Police, foiler of numberless plots against the President. As Captain Calvo rode down the broad Malecon with two Havana policemen one day last week, a submachine gun suddenly began to spat-spat. The two policemen were instantly killed. Captain Calvo was rushed to a hos pital, died with 36 slugs in his body. The submachine gunners escaped unidentified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Socialites to Jail | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Rudolph Dirks lives in New York with his wife, a son, 13, who attends Horace Mann School, and a daughter, 16, at St. Agatha's. He likes to remember his early days in Chicago when he marveled at the sparkling, spat-wearing elegance of Art Young, the glittering importance of George Ade and John McCutcheon, the portfolio of sketches brought to his office one day by Rose O'Neill. Of late Dirks's interest in comics has waned, his penchant for oils waxed. Connoisseurs of Manhattan's art exhibitions have long been familiar with still-lifes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hangover | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Last week, no longer spat-wearing but still jovial, foxy-grandpa-esque, Cartoonist Young, 66, went to Manhattan from Danbury, Conn, where he had spent the winter, to tell about a new book he has written & illustrated. Forty years ago he did a book on Hell. Now he has revisited Hell, found and portrayed it as a high-class modern community, completely taken over by Capitalist Exploiters, with the Old Boy Himself relegated to the background by powers-behind-the-throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hangover | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...were unfolding clouds behind which glory shines, Authoress Hall recounts how Christophe goes out one night with a patrol; how he wanders from the others, possessed with his vision; how, holding his silver rood before him, he walks up to an enemy patrol, is taken, stripped, spat on, and crucified against a door. The Author. Authoress Radclyffe Hall's maiden poetic effort was dictated at the age of three. By 1915 she had published five volumes of verse. Novel-writing, suggested by Publisher William Heinemann, followed: The Unlit Lamp, The Forge, A Saturday Life, Adam's Breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Touch of the Sun | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Thomas Prendergast, while driving his car, felt a sting on his nose. His nose began to bleed, would not stop. Thomas Prendergast drove to a hospital. While a doctor was examining him he coughed, spat out a bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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