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...Chinese generals left, and the Government bustled about getting off troop trains in the general direction of Sian. Ensuing dispatches grossly contradicted each other. In one of these the Young Marshal's friends succeeded in kidnapping the Generalissimo's wife and assassinated his trusted henchman General Chen Ta-chun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictator Kidnapped | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...could see, but it could not hear. Every few minutes a Fascist bigwig would jump up, wave his arms, sit down. It did not take very long. At 10:34 Benito Mussolini rose from the head of the table, strode across the room, stepped out on to the balcony. Ta ra ta ta ra ta ta ra! blared the bugles below. The cheers of the crowd rose to a shrill, hysterical scream. Women fainted in the crush and their rigid bodies were passed out from hand to hand over the heads of the crowd. Finally, chin outthrust, Benito Mussolini rested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Re ed Imperatore | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...keener or curate eye has cau football game. His come at the rate of minute. Wherever a phone can be ta high places and throughout the nation has taken it, do glasses, and cast a glance at the doings. events, sports, specta all have been quick for his uninterrupted glossy announcer's technique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 Words a Minute | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

...cultured, well-to-do Wang family of Peiping named their daughter Ta-jun ("All Gracious"). When, aged 11 and just out of elementary school, the child was found to be dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun quickly became interested in Catholicism, was baptized in 1929. She chose the name Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Children | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Composer Metz also claims he wrote that other ragtime classic. Ta-Ra-Ra- Boom-De-Ay, a matter of dispute since the tune may have sprung from oldtime honky-tonks as did Frankie & Johnny, or may have been written by one of Metz's colleagues, the late Henry J. Savers. For writing A Hot Time, which Publisher Marks estimates has sold more than 1,000,000 copies, Composer Metz still receives royalties from its frequent cinema and radio performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Ragtimer | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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