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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Jacksonville, Fla., the first port-of-call, was reached quarrels among the crew had alarmed the captain and his four New England mates. Ashore in the Florida port the brawls, revolving around John Burgess, a fiery Californian, continued. In a waterfront saloon Burgess drew a knife, stabbed a fellow seaman, was promptly shot and killed by a landlubber. Shipped in his place was J. Hartley, an agitator more troublesome than Burgess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Mutiny on the Algic | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Faye Lippmann; from Pundit Walter Lippmann; charging extreme cruelty; in Bradenton, Fla. Said Mrs. Lippmann's petition: "Lippmann is shrewd and quick in his mental processes, commands a vocabulary practically unlimited, is a facile veteran in the use of invective and development of criticism, a phase of his equipment that he constantly uses in administering verbal punishment on complainant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Tampa, Fla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...issue I have read the account of the award of the top prizes in the recent Old Gold contest. Is it not true that William R. Staggs, winner of the first prize of $100,000, had to split this prize with his contest partner, Addison Pound Jr., of Gainesville, Fla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...largest being the 72-bell carillon of Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Church, whose 20-ton bass bell is the largest tuned bell extant.* Others: the 72 bells of the University of Chicago Chapel; the Baird Carillon at the University of Michigan; the Bok Carillon in Mountain Lake, Fla.; the 53 bells of the Peace Tower of Canada's Parliament Building in Ottawa. Last week small Alfred University in Alfred, N. Y. inaugurated a carillon of 35 bells which it claimed was the oldest in North America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alfred's Bells | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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