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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Billy Patterson (Cont'd)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Let omniscient TIME consider itself good-naturedly rebuked for ignoring a widely known version of "Who hit Billy Patterson" [TIME, April 3].

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

> There are various accounts of the origin of this "Where's Elmer?" of the 1880s. One account: Billy Patterson was a rich Baltimorean who was struck by an unknown party in a border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Another account: Billy Patterson was a beloved Manhattan barkeep of the 1880s, who was felled one night as he left the Star and Garter's side door, by an unknown dastard with a blackjack.- ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Died. Annabel Hubbard Phelps, 74, wife of Yale's Professor-Emeritus William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps; of apoplexy; in New Haven. Full of fire, fun and hospitality, Mrs. Phelps was almost as famed in Yale's social life as her husband. An experienced housewife, she always kept ten chickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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