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Actually it was only Wilfred Overend walking his tigress, Fenella. Wilfred roundly declared that Fenella was entitled to exercise, night or day, that she was no more dangerous than the average dog. But by last week most of Holmfirth had decided that, if Wilfred had Fenella, they would take chocolate. The Urban Council had put the matter in the hands of its lawyer. Said one councilman: "I understand this tiger is going to have young in the spring. Then we'll have a whole street full of tigers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fenella | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Winnie Ruth Judd was blonde, slim, shapely, 26. That was the day she killed her friends. Many times in the next 15 months, passionate Mrs. Judd earned in full her newspaper nickname "The Blonde Tigress." She dropped her hysteria, her fits of blank staring, only when an impressionable jury had saved her from a scaffold-drop by judging her insane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tigress Loose | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...invalid 56-year-old husband, Dr. William C. Judd, in Sawtelle, Calif., Hospital Superintendent Louis Saxe broadcast a promise: she could run the prison beauty parlor if she'd return. One night this week a burglar fled from a Phoenix home, was caught. It was the onetime tigress, near starvation. For six days she had been hiding in a cornfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tigress Loose | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski was the sensation of the Philharmonic-Symphony season (TIME, March 29), prowled the stage like a maimed tigress, managed to give Strauss's frantic, maniacal heroine a quality of grandeur. Undaunted by gut-busting vocal hurdles, she sang, moaned and screamed her part, heating every note with emotion. Critics unanimously confirmed her European reputation as No. i Elektra and an artist of phenomenal ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Potent Pauly | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...head again, in the person of an Eton boy on vacation, with whom Elinor ate candy and discussed the classics. On a visit to Paris, a little later, she was beset by a passionate Frenchman, who took her to the zoo, thrilled her to the marrow by whispering "Belle Tigresse!" (beautiful tigress) in her ear. From that adventure Elinor dates her hunger for tiger skins, of which she afterwards had seven. When her sister married into English society, Elinor visited her, became an immediate success. Her first two seasons brought her three admirers-a bibulous, spluttering peer, a Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on Tiger Skins | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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