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...voyages were punctuated by Homeric booze-feats ashore, a slum-bum stretch when he lived at Jimmy the Priest's saloon in Manhattan and slept on the hickory-topped tables, too broke to pay $3 a month for a room. At 24, hospitalized with a mild case of tuberculosis, he began to think about writing plays. Primed on Ibsen and Strindberg, he enrolled in Professor George Pierce Baker's famed 47-Workshop at Harvard. His first published play, The Web, was set in a squalid boardinghouse. Its three main characters (not counting an illegitimate baby in the cradle...
Family: Business. In Nashville, arrested for drunkenness, George W. Hughes startled police by giving his occupation as "bum," explained: "Well, my dad is a bum, and I just work with...
...poor wretch, but replied, "Well, you must have that O.K.ed by an officer." Then she left her cage, walked to a guard and gave the rascal in charge. After searching him, finding neither weapons nor money, the guards threw him out of the bank. "We thought he was a bum," they explained. The next back he tried also ignored the would be bandit untill he was leaving, when police finally collared...
Carl Hall denied having killed Bobby. He said that another bum, a tattooed sex degenerate named Thomas John Marsh. 37, had shot the boy when Hall and Bonnie Heady were not around. Police were skeptical, but a nationwide alarm went out for Marsh's arrest...
Slow Student. In Carthage, Mo., James Ketchum, 22, was arrested after stocking up on magazines at a newsstand, telling the vendor he was going to college to study criminology, paying for the magazines with a bum $5 check...