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...should be able to protect themselves; specifically that his wife Violet (weight, 114 Ib.) should be able to repel mashers. "No," said Violet, "I'd rather scream." "You must," said Officer Westgate, flipping her headlong across the room. "See how easy it is? I'll have no thug beating up my missus." Violet agreed to learn four holds, no more. They studied together, became adept. Interest in the Westgates' ability grew; week ago the Detroit police gave a demonstration before a crowd in the city's Masonic Temple. Finale was the Westgate act, entitled: "A Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Feminine Defense | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant (Grant) gets trapped by Thug Guru (Eduardo Ciannelli) and is almost thrown into a pit full of hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Cincinnati, a fleeing thug boarded the automobile of 45-year-old Chinese Fred Wong, told him to step on it. Wong would not go against a red light, though the burglar beat him with the butt of his gun. Police captured the wrongdoer, congratulated Wong. Wong said sheepishly: "I was afraid of being arrested for crashing a light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Most remarkable criminal confession obtained by Reporter Rogers was in the middle 1920s, when Charles Birger and his gunmen were terrorizing "Bloody Williamson" County in southern Illinois. Impressing the Birger mob by his revolver marksmanship on empty beer bottles, Reporter Rogers became so chummy with a thug named Arthur Newman that in 1927 Newman confessed to the Post-Dispatch how he and Birger had murdered State Policeman Lory Price and his wife. Officials had never been able to find Mrs. Price's body; Rogers' revelations located it in an abandoned mine shaft. Newman was jailed for life. Charlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporter Rogers | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...share of the proceedings with considerable verve and a singing voice that does credit to her family. By a strange turn of affairs, after five reels spent in manipulating the affections of Boles and the checkbook of Walburn, Miss Lee is eating dinner in the very tavern where the thug who stole her boss's negative is bragging about his exploit. Best song: I Found a Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 9, 1935 | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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