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...Night Has a Thousand Eyes, 1948 Screenplay by Barr? Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer, from the 1945 novel by George Hopley (CW) Directed by John Farrow
...John Hopley, 48, of San Antonio, won the title of World's Champion Liar, awarded annually by the Burlington, Wis. Liars Club. His story: while he and Charley Skorpea were playing pool for the championship of Boggy Creek Bottoms, a fly lighted on the eightball. "Charley chalked his cue-a 47-ounce, solid-oak Brunswick-and knocked the eight-ball out from under the fly so fast that it fell on the table and broke its back...
...course they do," Mr. Billard told his interviewer, and rapidly went over the history of the Coast Guard. "The first commission issued by President Washington to any officer for service afloat was bestowed upon Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire, as Captain in the Coast Guard...
...crusading army had ever done battle without music and proclamations. And the efficiency expert made answer that the crusade was nothing, but the capture of the Holy City was everything. All this came to pass last week. To begin with, General Andrews demanded the resignation of Miss Georgia Hopley, whom the crusader had brought with him from Ohio. Miss Hopley's resignation was demanded because she was receiving a salary of $2,500 a year and expenses for going among women's organizations and with a silver tongue creating a sentiment for Prohibition enforcement. Previously, Secretary Mellon...
...Haynes protested. Most of Ohio's politicians protested. For Mr. Haynes and Miss Hopley are close friends of the Anti-Saloon League, whose home and stronghold is Ohio. Hoke Donithen, Coolidge pre-Convention manager in Ohio, protested; C. C. Crabbie, Attorney General of Ohio, voiced his disapproval. Senator Willis, ponderous Ohioan, who hopes some day to follow the exalted path that the late Senator Warren G. Harding trod before his death, paid a personal call on Mr. Andrews. Anon, all the protesters came out by the same door where in they went...
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