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...Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound 1926-1931," Donald Crafton New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...committees will look into the issue of credit and grades for courses taught by Paul A. Crafton, a professor who used false identities to obtain teaching positions at the colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Absent Professor | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

...Burg, director of public relations at Shippensburg State College, said his college's committee has come up with three options for students who stand to lose course credit because of Crafton's arrest, to crase the course from their records, to maintain their original grades and take a remedial course, or to reenroll in the course free of charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Absent Professor | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

...Holes. Amon Carter was born in a log cabin at Crafton, Texas, the son of a blacksmith. At twelve he left home and took a job as a dishwasher in a boarding house. His extraordinary salesmanship showed itself early when he began selling gilt-edged picture frames, soon had a staff of salesmen working for him. In 1905 he went to Fort Worth for the first time, rented a typewriter for 50? a month, and had business cards printed that said: "The Texas Advertising and Manufacturing Co." But his most impressive piece of business equipment was a $2,000 diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. Fort Worth | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...that point. Doris Ann had been lucky. She had taken each word slowly, often asking the pronouncer to repeat it for her. But her opponent, Marjorie Foliart of Crafton, Pa., was a speller who could go both forwards and backwards. To add to the tension, the spelling bee suddenly had a visitation: Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer came down from his office to witness the final rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Doris Goes to Washington | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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