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Tears splashed on the jewels of the Queen of Diamonds, otherwise Miss Mabel Boll (Senora Hernando Rocha-Schioos). "Now he has taken another woman," she sobbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Tale of Two | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Senator Phipps of Colorado) and crew. Of the latter, the only well known professional aviator was Wilmer Stultz, who turned back rather than pilot Mrs. Grayson to almost certain mid-Atlantic destruction last autumn, and who has since flown about the Atlantic seaboard with Charles Levine and Mabel Boll. The other two were just the kind of people who would be likely to depart from a yacht club landing when they wanted to fly to England. One was slim Lou Gordon, mechanic, 26, in aviation since 1919. The third was a girl who looked exactly like Charles Augustus Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Eastward | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...recover from her wounds, while the 6,000 people jabbered with alarm and the tigers were led out of the arena to their cages, looking less decrepit now, and licking their muzzles with junglar ferocity. The history of the lady was made public after the accident. She was Mabel Stark, once the chief ornament of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey "cat-acts." In these she allowed herself to be embraced by a tiger, something no other woman had ever dared to do. When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts, because spectators often suspected cruelty to the animals, Mabel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Died. Mabel Cratty, 60, secretary of the national board of the Young Women's Christian Association since its formation in 1906; in Manhattan; of pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...dogs last week argued for attention. At the Eastern Dog Club's show in Boston one Princess Jacqueline, French bull from Bangor, Maine, answered questions logically, in a thin, high-pitched voice like a parrot's, "I will . . . I won't . . . Bangor . . . elevator." Her owner, Mrs. Mabel A. Robinson, explained proudly that Jacqueline had learned to talk "all by herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Talkers | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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