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...Krupa, went to California's San Quentin Prison this week to serve a sentence of one to six years. Drummer Krupa had been sentenced on two counts. The first was a felony: employing a minor, one John Pateakos, to transport narcotics. The second and lesser count was a misdemeanor: possession of the drug marijuana, a violation which, if it could be universally detected, would land a great many jazz musicians behind prison bars. It is no secret that some of the finest flights of American syncopation, like some of the finest products of the symbolist poets, owe much...
Incubation. Releasing Harvey McKinney from a year's jail term for the theft of a hen and her eggs, the Court of Appeals in Frankfort, Ky. ruled that it was a misdemeanor but no felony, that the lower court "did . . . count chickens before they hatched...
...Iowa law provides that failure to transmit telephone messages "with fidelity and without unreasonable delay" is a misdemeanor, punishable by a $500 fine, a year in jail, or both. Carl Daubendiek, father of six, was indicted, tried and found guilty. (A county poor overseer had testified she was held up in getting an ambulance for a patient, who later died.) This week, while a district judge pondered his sentence, Carl Daubendiek was out on bail. Jefferson telephone operators were eschewing editorial observations and confining themselves strictly to asking for the number, please...
...brilliant skater all night long, contributed the outstanding offensive play of the game early in the period with an unassisted goal, after waltzing through the entire Tech defense. The last M. I. T. tally came with Engineer Bill Verrochi in the penalty box jailed with the game's only misdemeanor, and the Crimson roared back on the short-handed Engineers with two more goals in the final thirty seconds. Jim Apthrop, a member of the third string line which saw considerable action in the final stanza, netted one goal and George Harding wound up a three-goal evening with...
...case of the People v. DeWitt might presently reach Congress in the shape of a petition demanding redress. Months of controversy had climaxed in a set of high crime & misdemeanor charges...