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Last week a crew of workmen in downtown Rawlins dug up an old whisky barrel containing human bones. Whose were they? Somebody remembered that Dr. Lillian Heath, the girl who had received the top of Big Nose's skull, was still alive and still had her memento. It took only a few minutes to prove that the whisky barrel contained the bandit's remains: the lower section of the skull fitted the memento perfectly. The discoverers of Big Nose George's bones proudly offered them to the Carbon County museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WYOMING: The Return of Big Nose George | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...dyeing mill into a $54 million, 20-odd plant textile empire. Textron's baffling labyrinth of foundations and "charitable" trusts had been investigated by Congress, but nobody had ever explored it with such profit as Pomerantz. As usual, he was representing a small (50 shares) stockholder, a Mrs. Lillian Berger of Boston. She, through Pomerantz, charged that Little and his family had been enriched by profits which should have gone to Textron. When Little took the stand in Providence's federal court, Pomerantz undertook to prove the charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: In the Stockholders' Interest? | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Home Fires. In Sydney, Australia, Walter John Henry Watson got a divorce from wife Jean Lillian when he testified that she poured alcohol over him while he slept, and put a match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...topic of the Forum, held at the Rindge Tech Auditorium, was "Women's Education: Career or Kitchen." The two other speakers, playwright Lillian Hellman and President Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence, agreed that women's education was inadequate to meet the demands of a tremendously complex society, but claimed that this shortcoming carried over to men's education as well. Miss Hellman stated that "the inability to find a proper role in life cannot be confined to career women, but all modern women and men as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farnham Favors Home As Foremost Role for Women | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

Speakers at the Forum are: Miss Lillian Hellman, well-known playwright; Dr. Marynia Farnham, author of "Modern Woman: The Lost Sex"; and President Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College. The moderator is President Benjamin F. Wright of Smith College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls' Education Is Forum's Topic | 3/17/1950 | See Source »

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