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Into Bermuda's port of Hamilton one day last week steamed the Monarch of Bermuda, bearing 350 General Electric refrigerator salesmen and other passengers and crew. That night (it was balmy) a member of the crew stealthily entered the home of Mrs. Gustav Pagenstecher. Mrs. Pagenstecher awoke with a...
Last week Publisher Macfadden began to make up for lost time. Upon the front of his Graphic he spread a full page "composograph" (faked picture) of a young man in Sing Sing's electric chair. The young man was Francis ("Two Gun") Crowley, 20, undersized, dull-witted hoodlum who...
Moratorium last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 28) kindled indignation no less hot in his own 15th Pennsylvania District than elsewhere. While Postmaster General Brown in Washington was announcing that he would no longer "invite nor follow suggestions" from Congressman McFadden on local patronage, Mrs. Pinchot, whose Milford home is in the...
Everybody-Everywhere. "Seth Parker," composite of many an authentic Down East character, was conceived by Phillips Haynes Lord, 29. Graduate of Bowdoin College in 1925, Mr. Lord wrote unsuccessful short stories, then a radio sketch about rural life in Maine. Success came when he got a radio station in Hartford...
Thus did the Senate lose its foremost sarcastigator, the Democrat whose tongue was like the lash of an Arkansas snake whip. The Caraway manner belied the Caraway mind. He used to slouch indolently in his Senate seat or pace the centre gangway and back aisles, hands dug deep in pockets...