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This was too much for white-haired Senator Dave Crawley of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291). "I don't dispute the story," said he, "but I do observe a picture show is a hell of a place to lose it." After the fireworks, the bill passed: 29-to-10, went to the House, which has twice killed a similar bill. The measure was strictly class legislation. Even if the House should pass the bill, cockfights, bullfights, and bearbaiting will still be illegal in Mississippi on Sundays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Them Dang Movies | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...spectators, as spellbound as a gallery at Lord's, greatest disappointment were the Crawley Busmen from the nearby London Transport Garage, pretournament favorites because of their strong fingers (from punching tickets, they say). Overcome by nervousness, they were finally nosed out by the Old Comrades, another Sussex six, 26-to-23. To the Old Comrades went a suckling pig, to the strong-fingered Crawley Busmen a barrel of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Tinsley Green | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

National Educational Alliance is the idea of John J. Crawley, a Manhattan mail-order and subscription publisher. Observing that British bookstalls were selling H. G. Wells's Outline of History like hotcakes, in cheap, weekly, paper-covered installments. Mr. Crawley decided to put the world's knowledge between paper covers and sell it by mail order, saving busy students the trouble of going to a bookstand. He spent three years lining up bigwig educators to write the lessons for him. Then he was ready to send out a weekly periodical called The Popular Educator, each issue containing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 57 Courses | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Fisher, Archeologist Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, Historian Allan Nevins, Dramatist Walter Prichard Eaton, Philosopher Harry Allen Overstreet. Their students include college graduates as well as men and women who never went to high school. In its first six months, National Educational Alliance has made a small profit, but President Crawley does not expect it to be a gold mine. The editors of The Popular Educator say they will be satisfied if their papers teach people to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 57 Courses | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...matches. †still the No. 1 international event, played this week at famed St. Andrews on the Scottish coast. All golf enthusiasts are well aware that the nearest Great Britain has ever come to putting a dent in the Walker Cup was in 1932 at Brookline, when Briton Leonard Crawley hooked an iron shot to the spot where the big silver trophy was on display, knocked it off its pedestal. This year, however, Britons were talking about the "ascendancy of British amateur golf," were hoping for their first victory in ten tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Jones | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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