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...much of her early work when he edited the Independent. Author Harris died last year (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935), left the bulk of her estate to three nephews: Captain Frederick Mixon Harris, U. S. A.; William Albinius ("Al") Harris, Philadelphia adman; and John Duncan Harris, cotton millman of Manchester, Ga. Dedicated in Rydal last week was a nondenominational chapel built by these Harrises in memory of Aunt Corra...
Brunswick, Ga...
...Humorist Leacock cheerfully became an L.L.D. Promised he: "When I go on the shelf I mean to stay there. ... From now on I shall reflect a lot and say nothing." ¶ Pet college of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who went to Harvard for three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract nine years ago gave Publisher Hearst his first university degree. Last week Ogelthorpe made a Doctor of Laws of Mr. Hearst's able, orotund, Red-baiting Atorney John Francis ("Jack") Neylan. Also homored with Litt.D's were Novelists...
...medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates for their "gallantry" in capturing a Confederate railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga...
Superior Judge Berry T. Moseley was in bed with influenza one day last month when an excited deputy sheriff rushed into his Danielsville, Ga. home, told him he had better hustle over to the jail. The 74-year-old jurist arose, put on some clothes, elbowed his way through a crowd that had just battered a two-foot hole in the jail wall. Sensing what was up. Judge Moseley mounted the steps, thundered: "This is an open violation of the law. ... I declare you all deputized as officers." The crowd quickly dispersed...