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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contrite Heart. In Wichita Falls, Tex., a hard-pressed citizen beat up his wife, then repentantly drove her to the police station where she had him jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Pink-cheeked, stocky lancu Hersju was a prisoner in Buchenwald, his wife in a concentration camp in Rumania. After three years in a D.P. camp in Italy, they wrote an uncle who runs a small grocery store on New York's East 96th Street. He wangled their entry into Cuba, sent them money for the trip. Like Woloski, lancu could not get work in Cuba. The smuggler's price to the Hersjus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Smugglers' Trove | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...test his theory, Reporter Hammer persuaded the Press makeup editor, Richard Campbell, 25, and his wife Florence Margaret to act as guinea pigs. Signing himself "C. P. Ress, atty.," Hammer drew up a divorce petition for the happily married Campbells. He stamped the application with a notary's stamp, paid the $11 filing fee and waited the legal six weeks. Then he slipped the form into a stack of similar papers in the divorce court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sign Here | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Wife of Abraham, who at 90 gave birth to Isaac (Genesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother of 59 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Remarried. Martin Flavin, 63, who won the New York Theater Club Medal for his play The Criminal Code (1929), later switched to novels and won the Pulitzer Prize for Journey in the Dark (1943); and third wife Cornelia Clampett Flavin, 51, who divorced him in 1944; in Carmel, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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