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...from law school, was nominated, to please his Jersey City boss father, as a lay judge on New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals (TIME, March 6), 68-year-old Inventor Samuel W. Rushmore was disgusted. Because words failed him, he ordered the 1,250 trees on his Plainfield, N. J. estate chopped down, planned to tear down his two-story house "brick by brick," erect a $220,000 maternity hospital for Negroes on its site, and leave the State forever...
Died. Stephen Parrish, 91, a major U. S. etcher during the last century, father of famed Artist Maxfield Parrish; of old age; in Plainfield...
...Plainfield, Mass. For Sale...
...Jersey's Assemblymen were puzzled by a bill introduced last month permitting use of the bow & arrow in hunting brant, gallinules, coots, dowitchers, turn-stones, godwits, tattlers, certain other more common game birds and animals. Blind, rosy-cheeked Assemblyman Thomas M. Muir of Plainfield asked Assemblywoman Constance W. Hand, sponsor of the bill: "What is a godwit?" Mrs. Hand: "I'm sure I don't know what godwits are." Assembly Speaker Herbert J. Pascoe, from the chair: "They come from North Plainfield." Assemblymen looked the godwit up, found it is a long-legged, long-billed wading bird...
Last week athletic officials took action on the evidence that the seven men, all prominent in sports, had received compensation for expenses in an outside game, playing for a Plainfield, New Jersey church without the college's permission...