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Willie Thompson followed the two Providence men to finish in sixth place about two minutes behind the leaders, while junior Gary Brooten scored his first varsity points by placing seventh. Buster La France and Dave Donaldson also ran well for the varsity and finished ninth and eleventh respectively...
Other harriers who should figure prominently this year are Mac Brown, who turned in the second best elapsed time in the University Handicaps, Dave Donaldson, Will Julian, Buster La France, Sam Young and Gus Schumacher...
...Till-Case Circuit Judge Curtis Swango select an all-white jury. Nearly everyone in Water Valley (1950 pop. 3,213) knew the dead prisoner, Woodrow Wilson Daniel, 37. Many remembered him as a grocery delivery boy and as a dependable bootlegger for both races. Everyone also knew that Sheriff "Buster" Treloar, 36, who campaigned on a prohibition platform, had kept an eye on Daniel since Daniel, three months earlier, was acquitted of a bootlegging charge. And nearly everyone in town knew that Sheriff Treloar had hauled in Daniel one night last June along with bottles of "evidence" that contained disputed...
Sheriffs from a dozen neighboring counties sat together in the courtroom to show their regard for lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Buster Treloar. Encouraged, Sheriff Treloar admitted on the stand that he had rapped Daniel once to make him behave after his arrest for bootlegging and speeding, and that in the jail he had tapped Daniel three or four times on the shoulder and buttocks. Sure, he also nudged him with a toe to sit up for Dr. McMillan. Argued one of Treloar's four attorneys: "You are not trying him for whipping somebody. You're trying...
...conspirators handled it like baddies in a Buster Keaton film. One of them showed up at the Pusan airport with overweight baggage, left behind a suitcase containing an incriminating note in English ("Turn your nose north; your life will be spared"). Another dashed off hysterically at plane time, held up departure long enough to fire off a telegram implicating his brother. But once in the air, the conspirators were professional enough. As the Korean National Airlines plane neared Seoul, they held U.S. civilian pilot, Willis Hobbs, at pistol point. Instead of touching down at Seoul, the twin-engined...