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...health and on the verge of retirement from his law practice. But when desperate Richard Randolph, accused with his sister-in-law of murdering her newborn baby, doubled the fee, Lawyer Henry could not resist. He fitted on his brown wig, and hurried over to Cumberland Courthouse to appear as chief counsel for the defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baby in the Woodpile | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Finally, the dime novel appeared with sterling characters of the Deadwood Dick and Buffalo Bill variety. This was the literature that percolated down to the masses and stimulated the young man to follow the setting sun through the Cumberland gap to the west...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: Buffalo Bill and Turner | 4/14/1950 | See Source »

Erwin Raise, lecturer on Geographical Exploration, Derwent S. Whittlesey, professor of Geography, Walter Isard, research fellow in Economics, and John H. Cumberland '3G will also conduct symposiums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geographers Convene For Clark Symposium | 4/1/1950 | See Source »

Hospitable N.Y. Fabius and Pompey, about 17 miles southeast of Syracuse, had been without a doctor for five years. Last fall Dr. Brudny, then admitting physician at Brooklyn's Cumberland Hospital, was driving around upstate New York, trying to find a place to settle. The Onondaga County Medical Society referred him to Fabius. Dr. Brudny liked the place, but he had no money to buy a home and office. A Polish-born D.P. and a survivor of Nazi labor camps, he had been in the U.S. less than two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: D.P. at Home | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Henry Clay . . ." It was like old times. At every operational stop, cheering, pushing crowds gathered around the back platform and local dignitaries clambered aboard. Harry Truman made neighborly small talk. At Cumberland, Md., he recalled that Fort Cumberland was the first milestone on the old National Road. "And I helped lay it out-me and Henry Clay," said Truman playfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Like Old Times | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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