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When in Long Island, Judd Gray, corset salesman, murdered Albert E. Snyder, 45, husband of Ruth Brown Snyder, 32, the Manhattan dailies were shocked beyond the drunkenest tabloid editor's most gaudy dream (TIME, April 4, 1927). The Manhattan public was somehow puzzled. How came a curly-haired, weak-mouthed little vendor of female garments, in the vegetable suburbs of a great city, to such a pitch of excitement that he could smash a man's skull with a sash-weight? The tabloids, who followed Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder until (and after) the current shot through them...
...persons should remain celibate after marriage, as before." In this recommendation of abstinence, three of the 28 members of the Federal Council's Committee on Marriage and the Home concurred: Mrs. Robert Elliott Speer, president of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations; Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, president of the Council of Women for Home Missions; and Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins of General Theological Seminary, Manhattan...
...Richard Wrenshall, professor of chemistry at the University of Hawaii.* In a flat-topped, white building overlooking his university's experimental farms he has compounded a preparation of chaulmoogra oil which promises to be a better treatment for leprosy than standard chaulmoogra derivatives. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of the Territory of Hawaii heard of Dr. Wrenshall's work, asked for a report, published it last week...
...Blind groping . . . gross inefficiency" were two epithets hurled by Professor Charles Hubbard Judd, Director of Chicago's School of Education. "Educational engineering" was his remedy: He defended Research, cited cases where it has greatly aided teaching methods: 1) At the University of Buffalo, students about to be dismissed for failure were found to have little knowledge of how to study; properly coached, they qualified; 2) History in college was found to repeat 22.8% of high school history. "One historian has discovered that pupils in the ordinary American public schools encounter Christopher Columbus 39 times before they are allowed...
...highest honor in the Law School, the Fay Diploma, went to Orrin Grimmell Judd, of Brooklyn, New York. Eleven men were graduated Magna cum Laude and one Summa cum Laude...