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Scoop. In Cardiff, Wales, Reporter Harry Royston, 18, was asked how he managed so many beats on neighborhood thefts, blushingly confessed: "I robbed the places myself...
...afternoon 50-year-old Alfred Brissenden, a night watchman, was taking a dish of tea with his wife in their cottage on Green Street, Royston, Hertfordshire. Beside them sat Ben, 6, their black-&-white, smooth-haired fox terrier. Just as Mrs. Brissenden passed Mr. Brissenden the biscuits, a voice said: "I want...
Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, whose ample baseball earnings (top: $70,000 in 1928), judiciously invested in Coca-Cola stock, have made him rich, gave $250,000 to build and endow a hospital in Royston, Ga., his birthplace...
...which the airborne finally had to fall back. Here their hell was not quite a mile long, little more than half a mile wide-a packed patch of screeching shells, of fire-spouting tanks that broiled men alive, of strafing planes, of sleepless nights, foodless days. Bespectacled Major Royston Oliver, 30-year-old Airborne press officer (now in an English hospital to save his wounded hand) told about it in a diffident, British...
Last week Negro Lint Shaw, whom Judge Moseley had thus saved from lynching, returned from safekeeping in Atlanta to Danielsville to stand trial for attempted assault on a white woman. A murderous-looking mob forced his transfer to nearby Royston. There at midnight the same mob ripped him out of the jail. At daybreak his bullet-ridden body was found swaying from a pine tree in a creek bed, Georgia's 468th lynching.* Few days later in Pavo 200 Georgians raised the total to 469 by lynching Negro John Ruskin, confessed murderer of a white...