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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Offside. In Evanston,Ill., young Flyer Richard Crockett swooped low enough over a football game to shout "What's the score?", heard the score the following Monday from Judge James Corcoran: "$100 fine and $6 costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...parents, because one of his aunts "had a peculiar penchant for naming babies Philip." As confusion piled on top of contradiction, Judge Medina clasped both hands over his head in bewilderment. Medina's patience was beginning to grow thin: when Defense Attorney George W. Crockett Jr. got into the wrangling, he was also cited for contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: No. 5 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Middle Ages) whose Latin 28 was one of Smith's most uncut classes. A D.Lit. from the University of London, Miss Duckett for years shared a trim white house with her West Highland white terrier Gregory (named after Gregory the Great) and Novelist Mary Ellen Chase (Silas Crockett, The Bible and the Common Reader); she has long celebrated the completion of each Chase book by buying its author an ice cream cone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Eleanor Davis' "Laudamusic," which was altogether competent. The soprano, Phyllis Curtin, had the most difficult role of all, particularly in the jumps of the "Et incarnatus est." Though she had many exquisite tones, she showed a slight unwillingness to land decisively on a note and sustain it. Tenor Summer Crockett was inaudible at times during his soles and his voles unpleasantly constrained...

Author: By Herbert P. Glesson, | Title: The Music Box | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

Lawyer George Crockett Jr. was on his feet. Exclaimed Medina: "So we're going to have each one of you take a crack at me. Now you see your chance to follow up with a little more harassment." Crockett started to protest. Medina shut him up. An exasperated Justice had had a little more than it could bear. Waving his hands and saying "Woosh," Medina dismissed Witness Marcantonio and adjourned court for the weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: I Tell You ... Stop It! | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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