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...Allen Smith has reason to like cats better than dogs. Before he turned to writing best-selling books (Low Man on a Totem Pole, Life in a Putty Knife Factory), he wrote newspaper features, including movie-star interviews. During that ordinarily harmless tour of duty, the late Lupe Velez once became so agitated that she threw a small brown dog at him. Now, at long last, Author Smith has written a novel about a cat, a large yellow alley cat called Rhubarb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat Tale | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

According to U.S. census reports, some 225 citizens kill themselves every year by deliberately overdosing themselves with sleeping pills (e.g., Lupe Velez), and another 225 die the same way by accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bolts & Jolts | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Johnny Weissmuller, 41, barrel-chesty onetime swimming champ, longtime movie Tarzan, onetime husband of Dancer Bobbe Arnst and of Actress Lupe Velez, was sued for divorce for the third time. Wife III charged extreme cruelty, asked $1,800-a-month support for herself and three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Travels | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Gary sang Yo Te Amo to the late Lupe Velez in Wolf Song, early Paramount talkie. He sang Let Us Drink to the Girl of our Dreams in Paramount on Parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 13, 1945 | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...denied her burial in consecrated ground. But Catholic canon law in this respect is flexible, depending largely on the judgment of the local bishop. Since the Mexican Government frequently overrides Church decisions, a Mexican bishop might well be persuaded to grant what a California bishop would withhold. Hence Lupe Velez's body lies in holy ground. But if she took her life deliberately, her soul, according to Catholic doctrine, will find no rest through all eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics & Suicide | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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