Articles
Music: Terrible Thing
Last month, when Philadelphia Composer Harl McDonald announced the first performance of a composition for women's chorus and orchestra commemorating the...
Press: Silence
Hottest of hot stories in the U. S. Press was the Lindbergh kidnapping, murder, investigation and last week the arrest of the clam-mouthed Hauptmann (see p...
Cinema: Gossip Reel
For their best shots, newsreels are dependent upon accidentally suitable events, like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Otherwise they are too often forced to use...
The Press: If the Trib Says So
Long before 17-year-old William Heirens confessed, he was convicted of three brutal murders by Chicago's dailies (TIME, July 29). Last week, when he made it...
Sport: Horseshoe Man
In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week 18,000 fight fans witnessed one of the most exciting stretch finishes they could remember. Onetime...
National Affairs: 4U-13-41
At 10 o'clock one morning fortnight ago a man in a black Dodge sedan drove up to the Warner-Quinlan filling station on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue at 127th...
Arranging Your Own Kidnapping for Fun and Profit
Bored with bungee jumping? Maybe staging your own fake abduction is just the thing to satisfy your adrenaline needs.
PANAMA: Bouncing Scott
Bouncing is nothing new to 36-year-old Edward ("Ted") William Scott, New Zealand-born editor of the bilingual Panama American. In the '20s he bounced and was...
Books: Necktie Party
By THE NECKĀAugust MenckenĀHastings House ($2.50). Few things delight the Brothers Mencken more than a broken neck. Henry L. has been breaking them, as a...
The Press: Capitol Daily
Last week Washington saw Vol. I, No. 1 of a new newspaper called the Capitol Daily. In clear and careful detail, the tabloid-size sheet told of legislative...
Time.com Specials
Crimes of the Century
On the 75th anniversary of the Lindbergh kidnapping, TIME looks back at the notorious crimes of the past hundred years
