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...wall surrounding the place, climbed atop the truck and escaped over the wall. Arrested at 3:30 a.m. next day while looting a drugstore (inexplicably Chessman piled all the cigars in the middle of the floor and broke whisky bottles over them), he was sent to the Preston state industrial school at Ione, Calif, for eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: The Chessman Affair | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

Running Bear (Johnny Preston; Mercury). There was an Indian brave named Running Bear who loved an Indian maid named Little White Dove but was separated from her by a raging river. He plunged in, and she plunged in, and "The raging river pulled them down/ Now they'll always be together/ In that happy huntin' ground." The arrangement lags and lurches, but it has carried Singer Preston into his own happy hunting ground on the pop charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

Leahy was nominated by Victor Morabito, a co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers. Gunsel was offered by Frank Mc-Namee, president of the Philadelphia Eagles. Washington's George Preston Marshall placed Schissler's name before the meeting...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: NBA to Consider Franchise Bid Made by Team From West Coast; Leahy May Head NFL Next Year | 1/21/1960 | See Source »

...father was responsible for the success and integrity of pro football, and it was he who sold "postgraduate" football to the late Timothy J. Mara, George Halas, Arthur J. Rooney, George Preston Marshall, "Curly" Lambeau, the late Charles Bidwell (Cardinals), the late George A. Richards (Detroit) and the late Bert Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...George Jessel-produced turkey called Tonight We Sing. She played a Roman lady in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a Civil War widow, a carnival aerialist, a gangster's daughter and an interminable list of Indian girls. For one movie (The Last Frontier), with Robert (Music Man) Preston, Anne even became a blonde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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