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...League. The batter dug his spikes into the dust beside the plate, pulled down his cap, swung back to wait for the first pitch. It was Woody English, wiry Chicago third-baseman, coming up in the tenth with one out and the score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...officers are getting nowhere, and 1 ask you to investigate the case. I realize that 90% of the people of this community believe that I killed my wife for the heavy insurance she carried. This is the only motive that has been suggested as my life is clean. I have known and wanted but one woman, and my record is an open book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tactless Texan | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...loses by returning to New York and encountering Frances, herself jilted and now hunting him. Faulkner appears, frightens off Frances with threat of scandal, kidnaps Harvey to his yacht where is foregathered a group of magnates playing furiously with toy trains. Harvey's ego diminishes, and much clean fun with Margot ensues, interrupted by a visit from Frances and some friends on a small cruiser. Frances & friends drink with such success that Frances, disillusioned as to Harvey's wealth and roundly repudiating him, falls overboard, has to be rescued- by Margot, now properly disgusted. Harvey's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Manhasset Bay | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...SPIRIT OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP HAVE CHALLENGED STATEMENT THAT YOU SMOKE CIGARETS PLEASE ANSWER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yes! The Queen DOES Smoke | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...State Department put the word in quotation marks. For although it was probable that avowed Communists were among the bandits, they carried no Communist banners, posted no Communist proclamations, set up no Communist government. Numbering 10,000 they picked this city of over 500,000 souls clean of loot, collected a ransom of 700,000 Shanghai dollars ($264,000), moved on to attack Hankow, "Chicago of China" and Kuling, mountain resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Looting of Changsha | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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