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...shoot my way out," sneered Desperado John Dillinger when after his ignominious capture in Tucson, Ariz., he was brought back to Indiana and locked up in Crown Point's jail to be tried for murder (TIME, Feb. 5). Sheriff Lillian Holley, mistress of Crown Point's escape-proof jail, also made a promise: "I know he's a bad baby and a jailbreaker but I can handle him." The sheriff meant to keep her promise, but Dillinger's promise was a shrewd piece of bluff. For weeks he sat in his cell doing nothing but whittle...
Motoring to lecture at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, la.) Dr. Arthur Holley Compton, co-winner of the Nobel prize in physics for 1927 (cosmic rays), skidded on the wet pavement of the Lincoln Highway, crashed into another car, demolished his own, escaped serious injury. Hospitalized were his two companions of last summer's cosmic ray junket to the Andes (TIME, March 28): his wife, with cuts about the body and head, a nail through her left hand, and their son Arthur Alan, with a lacerated scalp...
...Leroy Sossamon, blond and blue-eyed, of Bethel High School and to Ophelia Holley, chocolate brown, Governor Gardner awarded two large identic silver loving cups for their prize-winning essays. Then, with them, he walked out before the statue of Governor Charles Brantley Aycock to be photographed. His political friends, suddenly apprehensive, reminded him that no southern Governor had ever had his picture taken publicly with a Negro, warned him that such a photograph would be used against him in future campaigns. Undaunted, Governor Gardner ranged the black girl on his right and the white boy on his left, ordered...
...summary: ARMY HARVARD Goldberg, g. g., Ellison Anderson, Harris, pt. pt., Markwett Kenny, Diff, c.pt. c.pt., Pickard Seeman, 1d. 1d., Hartnett Harbold, Bisson, 2d. 2d., Park Born, Lovell, 3d. 3d., Mulliken Holley, Sundt, c. c., McQuaid Ayre, 3a. 3a., Lane, Hatch Saunders, O'Keefe, 2a. 2a., Glenn Donald, 1a. 1a., Dreier Draper, W. Wilson, o.h. o.h., Murphy, Danielson H. Wilson, Allen, i.h. i.h., Wallace...
...year from September 1, 1924,--Alfred Chester Hanford, Ph.D., Director of the Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education; Julian Laurence Holley, A.M., Benjamin Peirce Instructor in Mathematics; and James McCauley Landis, A.B., Research Fellow...