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Called the "semagraph," Inventor Green's device is based upon use of the photo-electric cell. The special typewriter used in preparing copy prints a coded combination of dots under each character. Each group of dots interrupts a tiny beam of light in the semagraph, causing the proper type letter mold to fall into place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Semagraph | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...Emancipation (Jan. 1, 1863). He rambled on that he had been married five times, once cooked coffee for General Grant, had 49 grandchildren. At mention of the Civil War he mumbled about "lots of shooting" and "long roads." He broke into tears as he was led away to a cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Slave Pensions | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...extraordinary that Capone should have been interviewed in his cell. But next day Hearstpapers everywhere splashed the interview over four columns, in some cases under screaming eight-column banner headlines. For the interviewer was no less a journalist than Editor Arthur Brisbane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brisbane's Coup | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Arthur Conan Doyle could not have conceived a more fantastic story than that of the Lindbergh kidnapping. In spite of his convincing style, few would have believed that a criminal, regardless of his genius, could from a prison cell manoeuver a kidnapping so that, as the hero of the rescue, he might secure his freedom. The most recent developments of the Lindbergh case put such a story well within the realms of possibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUSTICE IN GANGSTERS' HANDS | 3/12/1932 | See Source »

...Glennon, "It's a very fine day the good Lord has given us, isn't it?" "A fine day, indeed!" roared Head Keeper Glennon as Mrs. Goldstein turned to leave by the prisoners' entrance instead of the visitors', and clapped her back in her cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Twitter | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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