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Mademoiselle Paris, in private life Miss Andree Lorrain, stepped off the train into a barrage of cameras and the blare of Brown's swing band (which was almost wholly drowned out by the scream of steam escaping from the locomotive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Mob Swamps Folies Queen in Mad Publicity Stunt | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...claimed she was Lewisohn's common-law spouse, shouted: "I have been his wife, his muse, his soul"; in Baltimore, Md. Next day Miss Spear turned up in Manhattan (where the Lewisohns were honeymooning). Newsmen, photographers heard her plaints, watched Son Jimmy, 6, bite her hand, scream: "I never did like you. I want to go to my father." (Newlywed Papa Lewisohn plans to sue for his custody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...First Officer W. L. Garner to perform his amateur conjuring tricks. On Christmas night, with the dam nearing completion, Conjurer Garner, performing in the glare of truck headlights, made a Belgian five-franc piece disappear from the hand of a small native girl. She let out a piercing scream, her arm became completely stiff, and the natives grew menacing. "She knows the money is inside her arm," grunted the native chief. "Makes her sick." Conjurer Garner hastily improvised a new trick: extracted the coin from the flesh of her arm and all was well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Corsair in Congo | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

noise, and cold. penetrating. band blares out, brassy noise. death rattling roll of drums. noise, a strident scream. angry hissing. belches of cotton smoke ... the train grates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...skaters that brought down the house each night were Frick & Frack, a pair of Swiss comics. Frick & Frack have been a scream ever since they first skated together in their native Basle three years ago. Frick, whose real name is Werner Groebli, was a student at the University of Zurich. Frack, born Hansruedi Mauch, was studying at a business school. One holiday afternoon they set to burlesquing some of their pompous neighbors who acted as though they owned the rink. Onlookers tittered merrily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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