Word: paso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then an El Paso police reporter named Walt Finley began nosing around Las Cruces on his day off, went back with a startling story. The football player had dim-wittedly agreed to stay in jail under what Happy called "voluntary arrest" because he had been told he would be charged with murder if he objected or tried to see a lawyer. But when Reporter Finley slipped into the jail and talked to Nuzum, he protested convincingly that he had nothing to do with Cricket's murder...
Western Ways. Enraged at the splash this made in the El Paso Herald-Post, Sheriff Apodaca first slapped the football player into solitary. Then he cleared him of all charges and turned him loose. The roof promptly fell in on the sheriff. A Negro construction worker named Wesley Byrd complained that he had also been held incommunicado in jail for twelve days, that state policemen had tried to make him admit the crime by squeezing his testicles with a bicycle lock. Nuzum's landlady, who backed the athlete's alibi, had been warned by the sheriff that...
...other dozen, Anita Maxwell Gil of 101 Paso, Texas received her degree summa cum laude in absentia yesterday morning, and all the rest were on hand to take their diplomas with magna cum laude honors...
John Stanhope Coolidge '49 received $250 for the best honors thesis submitted to the English Department. Two other English concentrators, E. Anita Maxwell, Radcliffe '49 of E Paso, Texas, and Bertram Hall and Lewis James Owen '49 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio and Eliot House, received honorable mention for the theses they submitted...
...watching him tie paper bags over corn tassels and ear shoots to control fertilization, called him "Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper, he produced a ten-inch ear of corn, the best that any other Woodford County farmer had grown. Then he held up a handsome 14-inch ear of Pfister corn grown from hybrid seed. He got the loan...