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...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, however, has not yet set down any blanket prohibition of the use of tutoring schools by athletes...
State's Attorney Hugh Mead Alcorn, the man who helped send famed Murderer Gerald Chapman to the gallows, was called in. Hayes & Co. were arraigned by a Grand Jury in 1938 on a blanket charge of conspiracy to loot Waterbury of better than $1,000,000. Last week a jury of Connecticut laborers, farmers and housewives, after a trial that had lasted nearly eight months (TIME, Dec. 26), finally cogitated the conduct of Hayes & Co. Eager crowds, including Cinemactress Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled...
...visited the Delaware chief, told him the tribe must atone for the wrong done to the bird. The manitou suggested that all the young women dance naked before all the men for four days. They started to do so, but an old woman spoiled the atonement by throwing a blanket around her granddaughter...
Chinese terrain like so many drops of ink spilled on a tremendous blotter, Japan was far less able either to harass Russia or to challenge Britain and France in southeastern Asia. The great two-year-old undeclared war has thus acted as a wet blanket on the smoldering fires of the European continent...
Anchored by flashy Jim Pender, who won both the Century and the furlong hurdle events, Cornell had clearly won the sprint relay. Don Donahue and George Kroupa of Penn had finished in a blanket drive for second place, and the officials had tentatively awarded the latter the palm...