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...famous Frost case in London in 1921 gives Author Fort food for speculation. A load of coal took to exploding in the Frost family grates, hopped out, rolled across the floors, went through walls without leaving a trace behind. Flatirons and coal buckets danced. One of the Frost children died of fright. Thoroughly investigated by the police and others, the phenomena were never denied. About the same time there were violent explosions of British coal in France, Belgium, Switzerland. Author Fort calls attention to the fact that it was a period of violent oppression and bitterness in the British coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alligator Stuffing | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...gold, gift of Leopold, King of the Belgians. In an unguarded moment her child was ground to death under an automobile's wheels. Mrs. McLean remembered Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace the Lindbergh baby. A conference was arranged attended by Captain Emory S. Land, U. S. N., Col. Lindbergh's cousin, and Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Means said that the presence of a cleric in the negotiations would cement the kidnappers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Nos. II & 27 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...were reported some time later inquiring on Cuttyhunk Island. Mass, for a yacht known as the Sally or the Nellie. Next day they borrowed another plane, made a similar flight over the same area. It was 48 hours after these trips that the Treasury Department was asked to trace the ransom money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On Sourland Mountain (Cont'd) | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

When he comes back, he has trouble with his sister (Ann Dvorak). Tony suspects someone of ruining her, immediately shoots him. The police trace Tony to his lair. Instead of shooting him, they shoot his sister. Tony survives just long enough to prove himself a coward. His riddled corpse is last seen in a gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...have been blown into the plot of grass from nearby trees which were lately sprayed. The spray, in addition to the arsenic, contained arsenate of lead. But Dr. Karl Meyer of the University of California, after analyzing the lining of Phar Lap's vitals, said he could find no trace of poison in preliminary tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wink of the Sky | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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