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...headed youngster named Carl Byrd Fisher often took walks in the hills with Whittier's stranger. In a rural magazine called Grit the boy saw a picture of Col. Raymond Robins, wealthy Chicago Prohibitor who had been strangely missing since he left New York Sept. 3 to lunch with his good friend President Hoover at the White House (TIME, Sept. 19). Grit readers were advised to notify Salmon Oliver Levinson, famed Chicago attorney, if they saw a man resembling the photograph. Last week Carl Fisher wrote Mr. Levinson that he suspected "Reynolds Rogers" was "your man." Mr. Levinson turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Robins Into Rogers | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit to a far-away trader, he runs into two dubious Australians, gets a lift on their lugger to another island. Captain Nichols, skipper of the boat, is a shifty but unashamed scoundrel. Blake is a nice-looking youngster with a secret on his mind. When a gale blows them to Kanda, a beautiful and peaceful island, none of them is in a hurry to leave. Blake strikes up a great friendship with Erik, a simple-hearted Dane who is secretly engaged to the local beauty. Blake, meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: East of Suez | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...genius is 19-year-old Charles de Ravenne, a retired child actor and self-taught painter. Artist de Ravenne was once described by the now defunct Hollywood Highlights as "a slight youngster with the 'artiste' expressed in every characteristic. His deep, ferret-black eyes look through you in search of what it is that combines to make you appear as you do. His broad understanding smile bespeaks an appreciation of you and God and nature. His long slinky fingers were made to push a brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hollywood to the Rescue | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...picture illustrating the hypothesis that true love chuckles at grilled doors. The proprietor of the speakeasy in this picture is no common Tony; he is Joe Anton (George Raft) and his blind-tiger is as elegant as his double-breasted dinner coat. When Joe Anton observes a fetching gilded youngster propping her face against his champagne glasses, he wonders who she is. He learns that she is a Miss Healy (Constance Cummings) and that the saloon which she patronizes, out of nostalgia, was once her private residence. The elocutionist (Alison Skipworth) whom Anton hires to teach him polite diction gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

CARSON THE ADVOCATE-Edward Marjoribanks-Macmillan ($3). Unfinished authorized life of England's venerable & great lawyer, Edward Henry Lord Carson, by a politically promising youngster who committed suicide (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Week | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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