Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROBERT THRUN...
Connoisseur. In Montpelier, Vt., while hunting rabbits in the woods one day, Robert Donald's dog sniffed out 40 bottles of liquor that had been stolen from a country club...
...majesty of Louisiana law was District Judge Robert D. Jones, presiding over his court from a dais beneath the folded-up basketball backboard of the Covington (pop. 5,000), La. junior high school gymnasium. Around him, jamming available folding chairs and pressed back against the peeling green walls of the gym, were arrayed more than a thousand sweltering Louisianians-many of them leathery farmers in shirtsleeves, who had arrived before dawn (and had been sustained through the humid hours by soft drinks sold by the ladies of the P.T.A. for the benefit of the junior high encyclopedia fund). At precisely...
...Great Impostor, by Robert Crichton. The astonishing biography of a rascally and unbalanced genius named Fred Demara Jr., who successfully changed identities with the ease of a child changing daydreams. At various times he appeared (among dozens of other types) as a Canadian navy surgeon, a teacher among Eskimos, a prison warden, and as a member of half a dozen different religious orders...
July 13: The Hamden Trio (Bruce Simonds, Robert Brink and Karl Ziese). Trios by Loeillet, Beethoven and Brahms...