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...afternoon of June 3, Arthur Maillefert, 22. of Westfield. N. J., serving nine years for stealing $30. was found strangled to death in the "sweatbox" of Duval County's Sunbeam prison camp. A sweatbox is a windowless outdoor solitary confinement cell little bigger than a coffin. According to Florida law it should be 3 ft. broad. There should be ventilation. Arthur Maillefert. called "Jersey" by his prison mates, had passed the previous evening in the sweatbox naked and inside a barrel out of which he tried to gnaw. He had also used a trusty's knife...
Manager v. Swinger. California has had no Democratic Senator since James Duval Phelan's term expired in 1921. On the Aug. 30 primary ballot are six names: Parson M. Abbott, Maurice James McCarthy, Annie Riley Hale, Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared...
...work Author Bennett pursued the society of literati, filled his journal with notes on the contemporary scene. He was not choosey. He confesses in one of his few poems: For me a rural pond is not more pure Nor more spontaneous titan my city sewer. In the Parisian restaurant Duval, where for years he regularly sat at a certain table, a revolting old woman once took a seat opposite him. Said Man Bennett: "With that thing opposite to me my dinner will be spoilt!" But Artist Bennett got the idea for The Old Wives' Tale from that old woman...
...drawing to a close spectators tried to guess what the jury of eight women and four men would decide. Public opinion seemed to be that Mrs. Gavin, real daughter or adopted, deserved some share of the Flood fortune. They recalled too that California's late Senator James Duval Phelan, another rich, lusty Irishman, but a wiser one, had provided against just such suits by a clever clause in his will- Suddenly there was a wild wave of excitement. Spectators rose in their chairs and booed angrily when old Judge Buck halted the case in midtrial, ordered the jury...
...feared for his own careful reputation. Soon they quarreled openly and Charles went off to live by himself. In his way both a dandy and an ascetic, Baudelaire astonished even the Bohemians. His first mistress was a hideous, squint-eyed, consumptive Jewess off the streets. Then he met Jeanne Duval, a beautiful Negress, and lived with her many stormy months. His hand-to-mouth existence was complicated by laudanum, which he took to stifle intestinal pains...