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...transaction. On April 2 Dr. Condon delivered the ransom money to the kidnappers' agent with whom contact was first made at null Cemetery. Presumably he was then informed when and where the baby would be returned. When it was not, the following "Jafsie" advertisement appeared last week: "What is wrong? Have you crossed me? Better directions, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On Sourland Mountain (Cont'd) | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Alfredo Codona, world's No. 1 trapezist since the death of Lillian Leitzel (his wife). Slight Gymnast Codona does swings, turns, somersaults with perfect timing, nonchalantly dives into the net when something goes wrong. Only aerialist in the world able to do a triple somersault from one trapeze to the hands of an assistant, he accomplishes this feat sometimes, at other times tries twice and gives up. For the cinema he has done his triple somersault several times: once in Variety, filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...spirit of ownership, the idea that this is our country, that we are part owners in this great American enterprise, should be everywhere accepted. When things go wrong we should raise hell," and keep on raising it until something is done to make them go right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/16/1932 | See Source »

...rich. . . . You're the first man I've talked to in six months who didn't ask me to give him some money to pay his grandmother's hospital bill. ... I took the job as mayor because the town was getting overrun with the wrong kind of people. . . . We used the Baptist church for a jail, then we got a little jail built and they used the church for a dance hall. Finally some fellow came into town one Sunday afternoon and set fire to our two churches. Burnt 'em down. That made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...Empire Period (1600-1200 B.C.). Mark (1) if he would have agreed with the proposition; (2) if he would have disagreed; (3) if he would have debated the proposition without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing; (4) if he would have found it meaningless: Murder of a freeman is wrong; the earth moves around the sun; all property holders must pay taxes to the government; naturalism is a possible objective in sculpture; comedy is a superior form of drama to tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago Party | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

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