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...brief career as a cop. The judge took drastic steps to enforce the law. The ancient Cawood clan, which dominated the county, was cool to his kind of law enforcement. Sheriff Jim Cawood couldn't seem to find many bootleggers, and most of those got off. County Attorney Bert Howard and Commonwealth Attorney Daniel Boone Smith were Cawood adherents. So was Circuit Judge Jim Forester: Judge Willie Bob's convictions were regularly reversed in Jim Forester's court...
...until he could reopen it in his own property. He shelled out $200,000 to make the house the town's plushiest and, with its silk-damasked walls, probably the gaudiest. When contractual snarls developed over transplanting Hold It!, Farrell switched from musicomedy to revue, signed up Comics Bert Wheeler and Paul and Grace Hartman, tossed in another $250,000 and put on All for Love. It was a critical flop; the New York Times''s Brooks Atkinson headlined his review: FARRELL'S FOLLY...
...Harvey Thayer went to the front early and staved there until Charles lunged ahead to win in 49.9. Thayer later teamed with Al Ruby, Joe Walsh and Bert Brown to win the mile relay. Captain Dave Hamblett sat out this race and the mile because of a bad cold...
...Bert Haines, who coaches the 150 division, has almost no experienced talent to work with this year in his crop of freshmen. Not much more than spirit will be riding in the '52 150 shell this afternoon. Last year, Haines was blessed with a top notch freshman crew. Six members of it now row in the varsity lightweight craft...
...will be curtain time on the Charles this afternoon for Bert Haines' 150 crew as well as for four other Crimson lightweight boats which open their seasons with dual races against MIT today...