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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aging, grey Convict James Monroe Smith, ex-president of Louisiana State University, who tried suicide by slashing a vein in his foot with a razor blade while he sat in a jail bathtub (TIME, Nov. 27), was given a machete, set to work chopping sugar cane at Louisiana's Angola Prison Farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Prison-pallid Dr. James Monroe Smith, convicted ex-president of Louisiana State University, hunched up in a jail bathtub at Baton Rouge, La., tried to commit bloody suicide by slashing his right foot. (It was his second attempt: last July, in the Federal House of Detention at New Orleans, he tried to have bichloride of mercury smuggled to him in an ice cream carton.) Two days later an ambulance carried off ineffectual Convict Smith to Angola State Penitentiary, to begin serving eight to 24 years for forgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...return to normalcy had set in, with several exceptions; bootleg liquor and bathtub gin made their first appearance. The crimson emerged victorious from this game also, with the "foot" in football very evident. Charlie Buell kicked two field goals, Arnold Horween one, for the game's only scores. The next two years saw almost identical games. Yale entered the favorite, emerged beaten 10 to 3, with Charlie Buell and George Owen doing yeoman service for the winners on both occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summary of last 20 Years of Harvard-Yale Grid Contests | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

Music, like sport, can be a deadly earnest career, or something that people do just for fun. For professionals, many books have been written. But the man who just likes to sing in the bathtub or twang a lick on the jew's-harp has never had a book to tell him where to go from there. Such a book was published last week by long-nosed "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music For Fun | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...itself, intervenes. As the two ancient rivals match wits, the home passes through a financial crisis, a strike against short rations led by wrinkled, wry Cabris-sade (Michel Simon), who spent a lifetime in the theatre understudying healthy actors. Typical shot: St. Clair, ensconced with a novel in the bathtub while his fellow inmates are clamoring at the door, magnanimously promising to leave after he has finished another chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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