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Harrier Hal May, a consistent Crimson placer this fall, stepped on a nail in the middle of the course, was forced to throw his track shoe on the side of the trail and went ahead with one bare foot to place fourth among the Varsity squad...
...Line. In Placer County, Calif., two young thieves were sentenced to the State reform school at lone, turned down because the school already had a waiting list of 125 juvenile delinquents, turned loose to wait their turn...
Married. Private Mickey Rooney, 23, pint-sized cinemadolescent; and Betty Jane Rase, 18, blond, 5 ft. 7 in., Miss Birmingham of 1944, fifth placer in the 1944 Miss America competition; he for the second time; in Birmingham, Ala. Private Rooney wooed & won his beauty in a week, married her on a three-day pass, expected to ship overseas soon...
...educated in engineering at Cornell ('17), served in the Air Corps (not overseas) in World War I, broke into movies as a prop man with the old Famous Players-Lasky. When he inherited $150,000 from his grandfather, he plunged it all in a Western (Ben Hampton of Placer), tripled his money, lost it all on a second Western (never finished...
...hours of questioning disclosed that he lacked a good deal more than a license. He was not a doctor at all. At first he insisted he had taken a few courses at the University of Buffalo, later admitted that his higher education consisted chiefly of a correspondence course in placer mining. He had spent half of the last 20 years in prison cells for impersonating federal officers, passing worthless checks, selling narcotics, defrauding hotels and practicing medicine without a license in several states. While serving time in Atlanta's Federal penitentiary in 1923, he had tried to get himself...