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...sheriff. Since Dwyer originally said he consulted the doctor about a venereal disease, this mention of Barbara Carroll was a slur indeed. Dwyer omitted her name from subsequent confessions, gave the murder motive as robbery. To friendly South Parisians, Barbara and her father, a respectable World War veteran and deacon, were characters almost as touching as Mrs. Jessie Dwyer, a simple nurse who had long struggled to keep her fatherless boy out of debt. But last May, 43-year-old Francis M. Carroll was arrested for incestuous relations with his daughter Barbara. At Thomaston, Paul Dwyer once more began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sixth Horror Story | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Observers agreed that scarcely ever was there a more crucial pitch as Deacon hurler Dick Mudge tossed the fatal offering to Murphy. "Maybe I had my eyes closed," the Bellboy batsman said lost night. "I thought I was sighting along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Nose Out Kirkland; Win Straus Cup Contest 5-4 | 5/26/1938 | See Source »

Previous to Murphy's feat, Weston's double had scored two men brining the score within reaching distance of a Lowell victory. The crowd was tense as Murphy stepped to the plate; even the Deacon and Bellboy stands were silent. Gilbert the king snake, Lowell mascot, nervously shed half his skin as two strikes were called. Then, contradicting the Casey legend, Murphy connected, and the Straus trophy was cinched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Nose Out Kirkland; Win Straus Cup Contest 5-4 | 5/26/1938 | See Source »

...game was featured by a crowd of 70, and rival musical organizations from the two Houses, the Bellboy virtuosos being led by Ned Skinner, and the Deacon jitterbugs by Red Lowman. The Lowell band patriotically spelled out numerous "L's," but the Kirkland musicians defaulted here, a little shaky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Nose Out Kirkland; Win Straus Cup Contest 5-4 | 5/26/1938 | See Source »

During the past year this big man and his small Sealyham, Deacon, have become familiar visitors to art dealers, art galleries, museums and artists throughout the U. S. In preparing the Paris show, the Museum's scholarly, sensitive Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. merely advised; Mr. Goodyear did the picking. After last autumn's fiasco, he did a businesslike job. The 80 living artists represented include most of the well-known names in U. S. art. But they also include a discreet number of young or obscure artists whose merit is known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Demonstration | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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