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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight months in his two and a half years of life, little Victor Christopher Ramberg had screamed day & night in excruciating agony. His cancered eyes poured a million devils of pain into his small head, taking away his sight. Doctors said he could not live more than six months longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Monoxide Mercy | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...eight months Victor and Dorothy Ramberg bore their child's screams. They nursed it patiently, tenderly; but the time came when they could stand it no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Monoxide Mercy | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Together they went into Calgary from Keoma, the little Alberta town where Victor Ramberg struggled to make a living as a grain-elevator salesman. Victor Ramberg bought two lengths of hose pipe. Next day, after dissuading his wife from wanting to die with the baby, he attached the hose to the exhaust of his 1935 Hudson, put the other end in the child's crib, started the motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Monoxide Mercy | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Last week Victor Ramberg was under observation at Ponoka mental hospital and Dorothy was facing a murder charge at Calgary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Monoxide Mercy | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...still around. The reissues continue to bloom amid the weeds, with the Louis Armstrong Earl Hines album perhaps the best of a satisfying list including a couple of old Teddy Wilsons and Decca's third Gems of Jazz set, which may have escaped someone's notice over the summer. Victor has been producing a Duke Ellington coupling every week or two. 'Twas said Ben Webster's Kansas City tenor sax wouldn't fit in with the highly sophisticated Ellington arrangements, but Duke is building backgrounds for Ben to improvise against, and on "Just a-Settin' and a-Rockin'." Ben takes...

Author: By Harry Munrce, | Title: SWING | 10/18/1941 | See Source »

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