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Last Sunday night, driving back from Scranton, Pa., it was my bad luck to be caught in a crawling, honking, bumper-to-bumper traffic snarl, and I was reminded again of one of the most famous stories ever published in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...Emerson, the ace of the Yale mound crew, came in to slam the door completely. He gave one Scranton safety--to Walsh, another three-hit producer--over the rest of the way, and gained credit for the triumph when the Blue cracked the tie in its half of the seventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Bows to Yale, 4-2, Before Eli Commencement Fans | 6/17/1952 | See Source »

Captive Audience. In Scranton, Pa., a grand jury recommended that television sets be installed in the county jail to improve the morale of prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Purple Heartbeats. In Scranton, Pa., the Times announced that "Edgar Clarkson and Anna Mae Thomas will be wounded in Lenoxville Methodist Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...Frank Cerra of Scranton, Pa. could not see her newborn son: while the baby was being delivered, she had gone totally blind. Her doctor told her that she had had an optic hemorrhage. Mrs. Cerra went to an oculist: he told her she would never see again. That was eleven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Light After Darkness | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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