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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine, William Claude Dukinfield conceived a passion for juggling. In the Philadelphia stable where the family vegetable cart was stored, he practiced earnestly with oranges and lemons. But the elder Dukinfield took a dark view of his son's ambition, and once he went as far as to tan him for bruising a lemon. Incensed beyond containment, William climbed aloft in the stable one day and dropped a large box on his father's head. Then he left home, never to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Made Curmudgeon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Toombs is an ex-newsman whose wife took ill and left him to care for their three children. If there is a word of truth in Raising a Riot, Toombs ran about like a chicken with its head off for 18 months-a spectacle that may weary some readers after 18 pages-and finished every day feeling like "an egg dropped on concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laughing Gas | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Reformer. In Zanesville, Ohio, Joseph George Buca admitted making off with a slot machine containing $18.65, insisted that he took it only because the machine was illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...election took place, because the whole board of editors was not present. Instead Shafer, Wiggin, and Darrell resigned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Ex-Advocate Editors Begin New Magazine | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Scattered interviews around the Square last night showed that Radcliffe girls took the news with a "Well, why shouldn't we" attitude, while their Harvard dates bristled with shocked indignation. One Leverett man even described the candy coated paint as "facial falsies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Meets Mouth Than Meets Eye | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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