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It is, however, highly genial, rapid and unimportant melodrama, laid mostly on a train, dealing with the efforts of Duke Benson (Douglas Fowley), a public enemy with a national rating, to collect a sweepstakes prize. An insouciant G-Man (Brian Donlevy) traps him by publishing an advertisement announcing that someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

In San Francisco, Hyman Gorwitz, father of eight, irked when neighborhood moppets overran his backyard, buried heavy steel wolftraps there, baited them with counterfeit dimes. Before Trapper Gorwitz could catch anything, adult neighbors scaled his fence, dug up two of his traps, had him jailed for would-be assault on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1936 | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Taking the express highway familiar to thousands of motorists bound for South Jersey's shore resorts, the Valiant turned down U. S. Route No. 9, preceded by an automobile to clear traffic. The coach tooled along at a fine rate to the leafy little hamlet of Marlboro, site of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mrs. Dibble's Drive | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

The Cape country Author Harriss writes about was a fox country. Bears still snuffled through the woods, and otter and coon and deer were plentiful, but the only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reynard & Pals | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

One day he traps a large number of us into a show of hands in answer to the cunning question, "How many of you have heard of the burning of witches upon Boston Common?" We are then forced ignominiously to recite over and over, until the lesson is thoroughly mastered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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