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Emerging from what he claimed was "a spell," Teller Wyre discovered that bills and women were gone. To police he insisted he had been hypnotized. Newark police arrested, Teller Wyre identified as one of his able befuddlers, a swart, shrewd woman who called herself Annie Bimbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Able Bimbo | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...years the same swart, devout Italian has delivered at the Vatican every morning the same sealed box, calling for it later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pope's Breakfast | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...Albert H. Vitale, who had just returned from a vacation. With this vigorous representative of the Law there sat down seven men whose faces appear in Manhattan's rogues' gallery. There were also several other suspicious persons, a group of local businessmen, a police detective, and a swart gentleman called Ciro Terranova alias Morello, commonly known as the "Artichoke King,"* and believed to possess a limousine equipped with bullet-proof glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: A Judge's Friends | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Scrub Joke. When it is 6:55 a.m. at Gettysburg Academy in Pennsylvania, two short, swart Mexican youths tumble out of their beds and then proceed to make them. They agree with President Hoover that their father is the one and only President-Elect of Mexico. They are studious Guillermo Rubio, 18, and athletic Fernando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...captured capital Kabul (TIME, Oct. 21). Her paper Le Petit Parisien had staked her to an airplane. With quick, appraising, bright French eyes she took the measure of the Conqueror, potent Nadir Khan, told how he rode through the streets on a prancing charger preceded by musicians, how his swart warriors danced and sang, how the people hailed him with shouts of "Liberator! Liberator!" Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion of rightful King Amanullah (now in exile at Rome) the Conqueror and Liberator found himself last week in a slight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Cannons after Prayer | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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