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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president, ruddy and reserved Gwilym Alexander Price, 50, works almost as smoothly. A poor boy in Canonsburg, Pa., he clerked in a Pittsburgh law office to earn his way through the University of Pittsburgh law school. Then he went to work in 1923 as a trust officer for the Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co. Steadily, quietly, he rose to the presidency...
Last Twist. In Lancaster, Pa., Mrs. David Norcross twice threw her wrestler husband, then divorced...
...year 1880, and spring has come to Willowspring, Pa. (pop. 4,000). "The sun, like an eager lover with searching fingers, [runs] penetrating rays into every crevice. . . ." Slowly "the earth yields [with] a sweet resistlessness . . . like the ultimate surrender of a virgin. Hens fly every which way. ... A cow moos and a bull . . . bawls. . . . Lillian sits under a great sugar maple, wondering...
Last week in Norristown, Pa., Headmaster George W. Balles, 33, of Warminster Military Academy, was charged with rape, adultery, assault & battery, and contributing to the delinquency of minors. A cop had caught him one night in a parked car with an eleven-year-old girl, whom he is accused of raping. The girl was one of some 30 or 40 children in his school, the majority of whom had tales to tell which the District Attorney described as "the most depraved stories of immorality I have ever heard." Wife Laura Balles, 35, who described her life with Headmaster Balles...
Died. Dr. Clarence Erwin McClung, 75, University of Pennsylvania zoologist and geneticist who discovered the relationship between chromosomes and sex determination by examining grasshoppers (he collected 100,000, once had a 20-man WPA team helping him cut them up); of a heart attack; in Swarthmore, Pa...