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Last week, after a two-week trial, Nassau County Judge James L. Dowsey Jr. tongue-lashed the two defendants' conduct as "sadistic, barbaric and immoral." But then he shocked educators who view high school hazing as a plague that only the courts can cure. He freed Gannon and Lenti on the ground that the hazing law is not "so explicit that all men subject to its penalties may know what act it is their duty to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courts: Ban the Bomb | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...Judge Dowsey saw it, he had no other choice in the first test of the law that anyone could remember. But many lawyers mused: If the "atomic bomb" is not hazing, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courts: Ban the Bomb | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

Since 1932 Hall has never lost an election. He served seven terms in the assembly, broken only by a three-year hitch as sheriff of Nassau County. As a freshman in politics he met James Dowsey, also a Nassau County Republican. At Dowsey's home in Manhasset, Hall met his host's daughter, Gladys, a pretty mother of two, who was separated from her husband. After her divorce Hall courted her over the parcheesi board in the Dowsey parlor until the summer of 1933, when Gladys went to her father's camp in the Adirondacks. Lonesome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Mahout from Oyster Bay | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Although behind 6 to 2 at the half, the Crimson stickmen rallied in the second casto to make the game interesting and form a scoring attack. Pete Zouck tallied twice while Phil Dowsey accounted for three of the Stableymen's points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Hampshire Ten Downs Varisty Lacrosse Team 10-5 | 5/6/1939 | See Source »

Engaged. William Hoppe, 37, one-time (1908-21, 22-24) world's professional 18.2 balkline (billiards) champion, to Miss Dorothy Dowsey, actress, of Manhasset, L. I. His divorce will become final next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

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