Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Jane Gibson ("The Pig Woman"), 56, eccentric prosecution witness of the famed Hall-Mills murder case; in Jersey City, N. J.; of cancer. A report that she had been telegraphed forgiveness for her damaging testimony during the trial by Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the murdered New Brunswick, N. J. pastor, was denied by Mrs. Hall at the Harbor Sanitarium, Manhattan, where she is recuperating from an operation...
...Editor Ellery Sedgwick (Atlantic Monthly)'. "In Ulysses Joyce made an original contribution to tragic literature, highly stimulating to conscious writers of subconscious fiction." Controversy still rages about whether or not Ulysses is really obscene. Joyce himself does not like dirty stories. A U. S. admirer chucklingly told Editor Jane Heap (of the late great Little Review) he was sending Joyce a choice collection; was advised not to send them, as Joyce would be greatly offended...
...chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau, last week was particularly pleased to note that there were then 500 child guidance clinics in 350 different U. S. communities. The first of such clinics started just 20 years ago in Chicago when Miss Abbott was a resident of Jane Addams' Hull House...