Word: lewisburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horseback, looking for money to start a new school. That fall, with donations given by thrifty churchmen ranging from 25? to $25,000,* the school that was to become Bucknell University held its first classes-22 students meeting with two professors in the Baptist Church basement in quiet Lewisburg...
...George Sylvester Viereck, 63, war-to-war propagandist for Germany. A stout defender of Kaiser Wilhelm in War I and of Adolf Hitler in War II, poetasting Journalist Viereck in 1943 began a one-to-five-year sentence (as a German agent) in the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Last week, having been released 18 months short of the maximum for good behavior, he was in good shape, said his lawyer, and had written a novel...
Died. Martin T. Manton, 66, onetime senior judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; of a heart ailment; in Fayetteville, N.Y. In a trial unprecedented in the annals of the federal judiciary, he was convicted of "selling justice" to build his private fortune, served 19 months in Lewisburg, Pa.'s Northeastern Federal Penitentiary...
...psychologist of the U.S. Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., 30-year-old Robert Mitchell Lindner, this week gives the public one of the few play-by-play accounts of a psychoanalytic treatment ever published. His book, Rebel Without a Cause (Grune & Stratton; $4) is a complete stenographic transcript of the analysis of a young criminal. Harvard Criminologists Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck call Lindner's work a milestone in criminology. It is also a pioneering study in hypnoanalysis...
...Tennessee's freshman Congressman Jim McCord, of Lewisburg, learned at first hand some of the tragedies of small business. A Rotarian took him to his Shelbyville hosiery mill, which he now called his "graveyard." Of 54 knitting machines, only five were working, and those on odds & ends. Said the millowner: OPA would allow him only 30 days' supply of raw materials, he could not get labor, his business was going to pot, he had spent the whole morning poring over a new OPA ruling on rayon hosiery and its meaning was still not clear. Jim McCord, a good...