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...Earl Warren started his working life as a call boy, waking up railroadmen on time. Then he was a newsboy and cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. He played the clarinet in the Kern County High School band, later joining the Musicians' Union. At the University of Cali fornia, Warren was a steady but not bril liant student. He flunked second-year Greek; he failed to make the baseball team as a pitcher because he was too wild. After law school, he practiced for three years in Oakland, then was drafted for World War I. He ended...
...Among his students: Margaret Mead (And Keep Your Powder Dry, TIME, Nov. 30), Colum bia's Ruth Benedict, Yale's Edward Sapir, Northwestern's Melville Jean Herskovits, the late Elsie Clews Parsons, University of Cali fornia's Alfred L. Kroeber, Harvard's Alfred Marston Tozzer, University of New Mexico's Leslie Spier, University of Pennsylvania's John Alden Mason...
...govern every earthly event, that the U. S. flag, financiers, politicians-and all religions but their own-are agents of Lucifer, who is at large in the world and now grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Witnesses have recently been mobbed from Maine to Cali fornia (TIME, June 24). Last week they suffered: 1) at Columbus, Ohio, where Governor Bricker refused to reinstate a canceled contract that would have permit ted them to hold their national convention at the State Fair Grounds; 2) at Clarks burg, W. Va., where they were struck from relief rolls...
...twice what you can get, then compromise for half (TIME, Oct. 2); and that the loser must have at least something to take home. He let the thunder roar, knowing he was on solid ground: go-day credits are usually regarded as equivalent to cash. But Cali fornia's resolute old Isolationist, Hiram Johnson, snapped: "This is the camel's nose under the tent...
...first criminal to be executed in the lethal gas chamber of the North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh. The Foster execution lasted eleven minutes, provoked a storm of newspaper criticism. Today lethal gas executions are legal in six States besides North Carolina-Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, and Cali-fornia-and are increasingly efficient, but to many conservative criminals and laymen alike the humdrum noose or electric chair still seems safer...