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Last fall, after a political argument in Greenup, Ky., Hillbilly Poet Jesse Hilton Stuart was blackjacked while his back was turned by Constable Amos Allen. Last week a jury found Constable Allen guilty of assault and battery; the judge fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Greenup, Ky., Hillbilly Poet Jesse Hilton Stuart (The Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow) got in a political argument with Constable Amos Allen, Democrat, said he was beaten over the head while his back was turned, threatened to leave the State for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...Cava (Stage Door) or Leo McCarey, whose The Awful Truth took top honors for direction at the Academy this year, Capra has no interest in jokes whose appeal is touched with neuroticism. He is sufficiently versatile to have made a successful picture from a story as fantastic as James Hilton's Lost Horizon. But as a master of pace, he is certainly no better in his department than England's enormously fat, lethargic Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps) in the department of nightmarish melodrama. For sheer sentiment he is probably no match for pudgy, high-voiced George Cukor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Columbia's Gem | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Thirty-eight men have been awarded scholarships and fellowships for study during the coming academic year at the Graduate School of Engineering. Graduates who figured in the $16,200 awards won the following grants: William Hilton scholarship went to Hyman Chisik '37 of Chelsea; Charles Store Storrow scholarships to Charles T. Morrow '37 of Gloucester; and Philip N. Ross '38 of South Sudbury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Seniors Among 38 Men Given Engineering Awards | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Francisco, American Federation of Actors tried to sign up Siamese Twins Daisy & Violet Hilton. Daisy said yes. Violet said no. At last Violet gave in. Puzzled the Federation could not decide whether to charge single dues or double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mouthful | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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