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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unclosed Case. At Giles' trial, witnesses told how B. R. Sheffield, a professional promoter and former business associate of Giles, had bought Rosenow Ranch, a scraggly, 10,114-acre tract in Kinney County, Texas for $162,500, sold it to the state a year later for $353,000. Giles admitted he had raised the state appraiser's valuation of the land $5 an acre. L. V. Ruffin, a Brady real-estate dealer, testified that he had traveled in Sheffield's Cadillac to California, Mexico, Chicago and New Orleans to get signatures of eligible veterans who had moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bonus for the Boys | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Freshman Leightweights: Bob Foley, stroke; Captain Viggo Bettelson, seven; David Sutherland, six; Bob Tyler, five; George Krumbharr, four; Larry Coolidge, three; Hallam Smith, two; Tom Sheffield, bow; Warren Sharmat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy, MIT Beat Crimson 150 Crew As Junior Varsity, Yardlings Win | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...never bad to pick up a crying baby unless he has already been spoiled by being picked up too often at the slightest whimper, Sheffield's Professor Ronald S. Illingworth wrote in the British Medical Journal. The only time it is right to let a child "cry it out" is when he is being broken of a crying habit for which parents are to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jan. 17, 1955 | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

Snap Judgment. In Sheffield, England, Mrs. Margaret Williamson won a marriage annulment after testifying that her husband Alexander argued with her mother two hours after the ceremony in 1949, walked out, never came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...musical with songs and lyrics by Jesse R. Barnet, Administration Fellow at the Graduate School of Public Administration, has been chosen for Radcliffe's "Drumbeats and Song," chairman Jane Flanders '55 announced yesterday. John Addey and Harvey MacGregor, graduates of Sheffield and Oxford, respectively, now engaged in graduate study at the Law School, have written the book for the annual production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Selects '54 'Drumbeats' Musical | 12/12/1953 | See Source »

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