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...tickling account of her mythical family. Since these relatives, invented for her by the Burns & Allen gagmen, are either nitwits, convicts or a blend of the two, they are frequently identified by their places of residence-Alcatraz for father, such other Federal and State penitentiaries as San Quentin, Joliet, Sing Sing, Leavenworth for brothers, uncles, cousins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Discreet Silence | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...play contest sponsored by the Allied Authors of New York went a script written by Convict No. 59727 of San Quentin Prison. Though burdened with four different titles, it was minus part of Act I. Cause: prison censorship. Author's explanation of cause: "It was a love scene and may have been considered rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Show Business: Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Count Rene de Saint-Quentin, French Ambassador to the United States who is visiting in Boston will be the guest of President Conant at lunch at the president's house this noon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH AMBASSADOR WILL BE GUEST OF PRESIDENT CONANT | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

...virtually all the 75 students were away fighting in the Confederate Army, and 61 were killed. In the World War, 461 old Episcopal High School boys took part as soldiers, one as the nation's Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker.- Among the school's casualties was Quentin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High School's looth | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Collins (alias Chester Howard), 27 got out of San Quentin Prison last month after doing a stretch for a payroll hold-up in San Diego. Last week in Reno, Nev. he ran across two former pals who were with him on the San Diego job. They urged him to join them in a new robbery. He said he was going straight. To fortify his soul he attended evening services at the Reno Baptist Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Christ | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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