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...room 18 feet away from the murder. No servants slept in. He testified that a storm awakened him, but that he knew nothing of the tragedy until he went to call his friend for breakfast. Police Captain Edward Sears stated that he saw Christie downtown in a station wagon after the time dinner guests Dulcibel Effie Heneage and Charles Hubbard left and Sir Harry and his friend retired. When Defense Counsel Godfrey Higgs pressed him on his movements that night and his actions after discovering the crumpled body, Christie began to shout. De Marigny stopped picking his teeth, listened intently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: The Ruffled Sheet | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Deduction. In Los Angeles, Arnulfo Perez reported that two men had hustled him into a black-paneled van, driven him several blocks, taken $9 from him, and thrown him out. Perez added: "I knew then that it wasn't a genuine patrol wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...reckless flying-some of it by pilots too young to know better, some by veterans too skilled to give a damn. So long as a flyer lets off steam somewhere by himself, with plenty of room, the possible results are of primary interest only to his commander, the crash-wagon crew and the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: License Lifted | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...prewar West. The tour begins to interest her when, at a rodeo, bronco-busting John Wayne falls on, and all but busts, her. The pair recuperate in a deafening Western barroom, involve themselves in a saloon free-for-all, settle down to their essential business on a hay wagon and, after Miss Arthur misses her bus, in a sinister small-town hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...amiable, 33-year-old ex-advertising man, Lyman P. Wood, son-in-law of the World's Christian Endeavor Union's famed head, Dan Poling. Right-hand man and financial angel is another advertising man, Wallace R. Boren, 43-year-old author of "Wally's Wagon," a homespun philosophy column syndicated in 21 U.S. papers. Wood puts in full time with some 25 women clerical helpers; Boren does his stint evenings and weekends. Both are entirely sincere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Postal Prayers | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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