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Five swooping airplanes sent bomb after bomb splashing into a dense wood not far from La Paz in Argentina's northeastern border province of Entre Rios, last week. The bullets nipped off leaves & branches, plopped into tree trunks, but not a man did they hit. Twenty-one provincial police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Three Wild Irishmen | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

¶ Cartoon of a fat female, rear view, at a railway ticket window. She: "Can I get my trunks off on this train?" Agent: "I doubt it, lady!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hooey | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

First comes a shot of Fairbanks running around a boat deck; then one of Fairbanks dressed in a bath-towel, doing his exercises. In Japan he plays golf, provides a pictorial essay on Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Mrs. Wood was the irascible, imperious dame once again when her nephew and his lawyers came to take her money and treasures to a bank for safekeeping. From the folds of her dress she took a bundle and handed it over. It contained nearly $400,000 in bills; but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After Fortune | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

*His father, a Greek clergyman-orator; his mother, Georgina Mandic, a Serbian inventress of household thingamajigs. "Her fingers were still nimble enough to tie three knots in an eyelash" when she was past 60. Dr. Tesla migrated to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Alva Edison, whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tesla at 75 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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