Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PAUL E. DEMETER...
...sedan. The boy yawned, told the inquisitive policeman to look in the car's trunk. The good cop did so and shuddered. Wedged in the trunk was the mangled body of Dr. James G. Littlefield, 63, stuffed in the rear seat the body of his wife. The boy, Paul Dwyer of South Paris, Me., then told a strange and horrible story: that he had killed the old doctor for casting a slur on his girl, bundled him into the trunk of his own car and then taken his wife searching for him, killed Mrs. Littlefield when she grew suspicious...
What made O. K. Bovard a great editor was his inflexible integrity. When Bovard ordered his most famous correspondent, Paul Y. Anderson,* to stop writing for The Nation four years ago, that hardhitting reporter took the order in good part, ridiculed the suggestion "that interests which I have treated none too tenderly" had finally caught up with his boss: "Don't believe a word of it. The Post-Dispatch cannot be 'reached'-I have seen that tried often enough to know." In a gregarious profession, Bovard's aloofness has become a legend. To keep his objectivity...
When the late Dr. Samuel Smith Drury was Rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.), he was offered two other jobs: the Episcopal coadjutor-bishopric of Pennsylvania, the rectorship of Manhattan's Trinity Church ("one of the most enviable jobs in or beyond the Episcopal Church" which has often proved a stepping-stone to the top-ranking bishopric of New York). St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige...
...Groton. Harvard (where he played end on the football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...