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Gallic tongues in cheek, Vu's Publisher Lucien Vogel and Editor Philippe Boegner last week confessed that these sensations were no more authentic than the hoaxes annually perpetrated in the April Fool number of German Illustritre Zeitung (TIME, April 23, 1934). According to Vu, the Referee's gullible and light-fingered editors were not the only dupes of the sextuplet yarn, which had been illustrated with six views of the same infant. To an inquiring U. S. doctor, Vu solemnly replied that the six little boys now had a sister, born three months after the multiple delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vu's Views | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...witness was fat, freckled old John Henry Kirby, Texas oil and lumber man, who quickly revealed that the right-hand man who really knew the inner workings of his organization was one Vance Muse. A big, muscular, loose-jointed Texan with thick brown hair and a scar on his cheek, Mr. Muse swung up to the witness chair. Senator Black told him to sit down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black on Blacks | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...conclusion be it said that there remains, if any there was, no part in the performance that would bring a blush to the cheek of the most sensitive Boston virgin. And the only thing that bothered this reviewer was the sight of Mr. Hull's slimy, grimy Southern feet, when he took off his shoes...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/21/1936 | See Source »

...Matthew: But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Mulller v. Matthew | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Ponderous Senator Smith has sat in his well-whittled seat longer than any other man in the Senate except William Edgar Borah. He keeps a quid of tobacco in his ample cheek, spits into his Senatorial cuspidor with regularity and precision, speaks for cotton as a cotton grower, heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Conversations About Cotton | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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