Word: nolen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preliminary game, the Yardlings defeated Wesleyan's freshmen, 57 to 48. The Crimson's scoring was evenly distributed with Harold Downey, Warren Kantrowitz, and Jim Nolen all scoring in double figures. Bob Bowman, Howard Adler, and John Van Doren also played well
Stuck to the story of Johnny Nolen, the well-meaning, irresponsible husband, and his unsuccessful attempts to give up a happy-go-lucky life of gin colored fantasy, all the gaiety of the musical bogs down. Even the humorous sub-plot of Johnny's sister-in-law, Cissy, constantly spliced with Nolen tragedy, seems out of place...
Perhaps most inconsistent in the theatrical rewrite by Miss Smith and George Abbott is that the authors expanded and burlesqued the Cissy part, making a vehicle for Shirley Booth and now Miss Blondell, while they left the Nolens as poignant as before. This creates a jarring contrast; and since the music and choreography fit in with the lighter parts of the production, the Nolen scenes lie alone and disjointed...
After Bank Robbers Joseph Nolen, his brother Ballard and Elmer Schuer broke out of Lewisburg, Pa.'s federal penitentiary, they stole four cars, ran through and around Pennsylvania police roadblocks, stabbed, kidnaped, looted and finally, in a Philadelphia suburb, held a family captive for 19 hours (TIME, Sept. 22). Then they headed for Scranton, took a wrong turn, came to New York instead. When they ran short of cash, they staged a three-minute raid on a Bronx bank, got $12,680. Early one morning this week, eleven days after the escape, 31 New York police, armed with tear...
...probably know who we are," said 26-year-old Joseph Nolen of Woodbine, Ky. "We're not going to hurt you-we just want your house for a day. If you do what we tell you, nobody will be hurt." As Nolen pushed open the back door, his brother Ballard, 22, and Elmer Schuer, 21, of Chicago appeared from behind a trellis, pointing shotguns at Mrs. Hill. When the men had searched the house from cellar to attic, Mrs. Hill asked them if they would like some breakfast. "Yes, we'd appreciate it," replied Joseph politely. She fixed...