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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quentin, Calif., where inmates are enabled to take extension work in the State University at Berkeley by correspondence. There Warden James Bernard Holohan, a firm-fisted 200-pounder, guards over 5,000 inmates. Among them are Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), killer of his common law wife, now chief of the convict fire department; Clara Phillips, who killed a lady intimate of her husband with a hammer; famed Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, sent up for life from San Francisco on evidence since found to be perjured. Currently famed is Mrs. Frances Leano, for whom San Quentin can provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stone Upon Stone | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Died. James ("Uncle Jim") McCoy, 80, of Pikeville, Ky., last of the McCoy clan, famed feudists against the Hatfields in the '705 and '80s; in Pikeville. The feud started over contested ownership of some sows and pigs, lasted until 25 years ago when a mountain preacher brought about a peace agreement. Last year Tennis Hatfield, grandson of onetime leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, offered his hand in friendship to James McCoy, and the two walked arm and arm down the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Wise Child. Many are the ways in which a girl can rid herself of a distasteful fiancé. One of the simpler and more startling expedients is to tell him that she is with child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A. Appleby (Harlan Briggs). Of course it is untrue-she is inspired by the plight of the family's housemaid. Appleby is much older than she and, though he is the town's richest and noisiest citizen, his love-making under the trees is too unctuous for pretty, sensitive Joyce. Her falsehood also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Cross, 15, 20, 21 New Lect. Hall Mr. Hawkes, 4, 13 New Lect. Hall Dr. Heffner, 6, 11 Emerson D Mr. Henry, 16, 19 Emerson D Dr. Horrick, 1, 14 New Lect. Hall Dr. Howe, 5 New Lect. Hall Mr. Johnston, 2, 9, 12 New Lect. Hall Mr. McCoy, 7 Harvard 2 Mr. Nolte, 3, 17 Emerson D Mr. Palmer, 10, 18 New Lect. Hall German C Emerson J German 21 Emerson A Indic Philology 3' 2 o'clock Emerson A English 10a Harvard 5 TOMORROW Botany 1 Geol. Lect. Rm. Chemistry 5 Mallinckrodt Medium Rm. Class. Philology 53 Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Examinations for Today and Tomorrow | 6/11/1929 | See Source »

...Cross, 15, 20, 21 New Lect. Hall Mr. Hawkes, 4, 13 New Lect. Hall Dr. Heffner, 6, 11 Emerson D Mr. Henry, 16, 19 Emerson D Dr. Herrick, 1, 14 New Lect. Hall Dr. Howe, 5 New Lect. Hall Mr. Johnston, 2, 9, 12 New Lect. Hall Mr. McCoy, 7 Harvard 2 Mr. Nolte, 3, 17 Emerson D Mr. Palmer, 10, 18 New Lect. Hall German C Emerson J German 21 Emerson A Indic Philology 3 Emerson A 2 o'clock English 10a Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Examinations for Today and Tomorrow | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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