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Homicides by firearms-not counting shooting in self-defense-have long run at an average rate of around 40 a year in Kentucky's Harlan County (pop. 71,750). But last week, for the first time in 132 years, the circuit court clerk posted a criminal docket (for May) without a single murder case...
...Harlan's miners and mountaineers were astounded, and Circuit Court Judge Astor Hogg just had time to get his jaws ajar and allow it was "the beginning of a new era" when the Beach boys, who dabble in bootlegging, drove into downtown Harlan, the county seat, and fired six bullets into 45-year-old Avery Hensley, a former cop. In the words of Kentucky's standard indictment form, Avery Hensley "did then & there die." Six hours later, Avery's stepson Joe Hensley was sitting in a parked car outside the bus terminal when two Harlan policemen...
Assistant Dean Richard T. Gill '48, who, with Assistant Dean Harlan P. Hanson '46, handles the sophomore and junior classes, said yesterday that many men blamed their troubles on the fact that they had spent too much time investigating various service opportunities...
...Novelist Sykes's hero is Lieut. Colonel Harlan Childress, engineer by trade and artist by instinct, who finds himself commanding an Army post in Algiers at the end of World War II. Like many...
...would have a difficult time sending boys down to Stillman Infirmary to empty bedpans," Dean Harlan P. Hanson '46 said last night, commenting on a new system of academic punishment at Michigan University. The new plan requires students to work off penalties, instead of being suspended...