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...Cummins Prison Farm in southeast Arkansas-was three miles away. Here were pea fields where the convicts had been working all morning. They were a tough crew, murderers, robbers, rapists, kidnappers-men like Frank Conley, who at 34 had a 21-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping; like Percy Loftin, who at 25 faced life plus 52 additional years for murder, robbery and kidnapping. Their guards were tough, some of them trusties-Arkansas law permits trusties to be armed as guards. There was a new one -Claude Martin, who murdered his wife last year-sitting down, holding his shotgun...
...last week in West Point's grey Gothic mess hall the cadets of the U. S. Military Academy looked up from their meal, beheld for the first time the final and complete version of Decisive Battles of the World. A 70-ft. mural by T. (for Tom) Loftin Johnson, it was not only the Academy's most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted...
...Swore in Florida's new Senator, Scott Marion Loftin, appointed to succeed the late Park Trammell...
There are 77 Johnsons (and Johnstons), 62 Joneses. Newton Diehl Baker contributes the sketch of his fellow-townsman Tom Loftin Johnson, capitalist (street railways), who was converted to the single tax by Henry George and became Cleveland's foremost Mayor (1901-09). George Jones, co-founder of the New York Times in 1851, is distinguished among Joneses and newspaper publishers by reason of having refused an offer of $5,000,000 to abandon his crusade against Tammany Boss William Marcy Tweed...
...Manhattan engineers, Edwin H. Loftin and S. Young White, last week announced that they had perfected a compact self-recording phonograph; and were going to install duplicates in public booths. For 25? a customer speaks the message he is too inept, lazy or hurried to write. He may mail the disc or he may give it to a telephone operator to play over long-distance. The Loftin-White device also answers telephones, automatically records messages. Suggested name: postephony...