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Like many another pilot's wife, Mrs. "Cash" Chamberlain has listened for years at 3,105 kilocycles on the short-wave radio for her husband's cheery voice while he, a 1,000,000-mile veteran, was on his Northwest Airlines runs. One night last week, after she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pilot's Voice | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Those who sensed quickly what had happened rolled off the cars. Frozen to their seats with shock and fear, the others held on until it was too late. Faster, faster, faster rolled the rake, rocking crazily as it gathered speed. Panic-stricken miners flung themselves over the side. Some were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Underground Runaway | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Done in grey, with staring whites and blacks, Guernica had a visceral effect on Londoners who had just got over the war scare, an esthetic kick for the critics. The Times's, Eric Newton noted that in his studies for a screaming woman (see cut) Picasso had drawn each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: London Greys | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

When the invaders knocked their way in, they saw Mrs. Barnett at the top of the stairs, brandishing a hatchet. "Get out of here, you gangsters!" shrilled fat Mrs. Barnett. Seeing two women deputies, she screamed: "And keep your old fish hags out of here, too." Blinded by a whiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Last Stand | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Then frisky fate dealt Tex Langford as rude a bulldogging as any Panhandle dogie ever got. In over the Potato Patch whisked last week's hurricane (see p. 11) at week's end Tex's dream was jagged driftwood on the Gravesend strand.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Panhandle Dream | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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