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...richest harvest of loot that had ever fallen to the lot of American criminals." Three hundred and fifty prisoners were freed from the flaming jail, promptly broke into a jewelry store. Through the glare scurried whores, murderers, thieves, all "scolding, stealing, fighting; laughing at the beautiful and splendid crash of walls and falling roofs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down the Cesspool | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Last week the stockholders of the afternoon tabloid PM, which last June set out to crash New York City's big-time circle of newspapers, received copies of a letter. It began "Dear Sirs: I intend to form a corporation under the laws of the State of New York . . ." and it concluded "Very truly yours, Marshall Field." The letter punctuated a fact which PM's directors had already faced: that after about three months of publication PM had run completely through-and come out the other side of-the $1,500,000 cash which 18 stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: PM's First $1,500,000 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...award twice before.* In 1939 she became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost a leg in a crash at sea as a Russian ace in World War I, is proudest of his feat in designing the first pursuit plane to exceed 300 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 23, 1940 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...wise Maxwell Perkins); 3) the scandal which George's novel caused in Libya Hill and the anguish this caused George; 4) the real-estate boom and moral deterioration of Libya Hill, and the town's collapse along with the rest of the U. S. in the 1929 crash; 5) George's four years of soul searching in sordid, proletarian South Brooklyn; 6) George's life in England while writing another book; 7) George's two-day adventures with Novelist Lloyd McHarg (in real life Sinclair Lewis, who plugged Thomas Wolfe in his Nobel Prize address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burning, Burning, Burning | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Pistol In Miami's Negro section, Theatre Usher Jack Woodberry was hauled into court for shooting at a pickaninny. His explanation: only a pistol loaded with blanks would scare off youthful gate crash ers. Sentence suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 9, 1940 | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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