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Meantime, Boatbuilder John H. Curtis and Sheriff John H. Curtiss made their bits of pre-trial news. Shortly after the baby disappeared, Mr. Curtis went up from Norfolk, Va. to tell Col. Lindbergh that he was in touch with the kidnappers. When the child's body was found, Curtis renounced his story, was convicted of obstructing justice. He was just barely kept out of jail by Lawyer W. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington. In the past two years he and Lawyer Fisher have grown to be fast friends. Flabbergasted was Friend Fisher, now an associate in Hauptmann's defense...
Flemington has been on the newspaper map ever since the kidnapping occurred. It was a base of police operations and, after the baby's corpse was found, the place where pettifogging Boat-Builder John H. Curtis of Norfolk was tried for fraud after he led Col. Lindbergh on a wild goose chase for his son. But even the citizens of Flemington were not prepared for the sort of life & death contest which was about to be staged in their town. The 100-year-old courthouse seats only 250 people in all. More than 400 reporters and special correspondents have...
...Paris where he speedily absorbed and copied all the latest French fads. Six Wartime months in the U. S. Navy knocked French Impressionism out of him, prompted him to develop a style of his own which he first exhibited in a series of realistic watercolors of War activities around Norfolk...
...Edward H.H. Jasen, Stroudsburg, Pa.; John S. Lang, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Rupert M. Smith, Bethayres, Pa.; Irving G. Shaffer, Reading, Pa.; George F. Tittmann, West Chester, Pa.; George D. Zimmerman, Reading, Pa.; Joseph A. Hindle, Providence, R.I.; George Cantor, Bennington, Vt.; Charles E. Tuttle, Jr., Rutland, Vt.; Lemuel Bowden, Jr.; Norfolk, Va.; Donald W. Davis, Jr., Williamsburg, Va.; John H. Gilbert, Milwaukee, Wis.; Lorne Rickert, Kitchener, Ont., Canada; Phillipe Dur, Toronto, Ont., Canada; Frederic C. Bartter, Baguio, Philipine Islands
Into the decrepit frame the late Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler breathed new life. A onetime superintendent of schools, he made teacher training the college's chief aim. Ten new buildings sprang up on the campus. Established were branches at Richmond, Newport, Norfolk. President Chandler revived the School of Law, made it part of a new Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship. Dying last June, he left a lively college of 100 faculty members, 1,200 students...