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...decade the citizens of placid little Le Mars, Iowa (pop. 4,700) have been puzzled by the goings on of tall, statuesque Mrs. Maybelle Trow Knox. Her neighbors knew she was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lady of Le Mans | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...estate of an eccentric Le Mars lawyer named T. M. Zink. This year Mrs. Knox knocked out the teeth of a relief official at a meeting where she was protesting the laying off of Sumner Knox. When neighbors began to note the absence of Mr. Knox and Mrs. Trow, Le Mars grew suspicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lady of Le Mans | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...this great big world there doesn't exist, I trow, a single radio announcer That he would spouncer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Nash, Rash | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...ENTIRE garb WILL consist in A LOOSE double-breasted COAT and the nice COOL LONG trow MENTIONED somewhere in THE wilderness above...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

Lieut. Donald g. Trow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Honor Roll | 5/28/1921 | See Source »

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