Word: trenton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transit Radio's President Richard Crisler this week admitted that bus broadcasts have already been abandoned in St. Louis and Omaha, will be dropped this week in Washington and Cincinnati, are losing money in Tacoma, Wash., Worcester, Mass. and Trenton, N.J. The reason: loss of national revenue...
Appomattox. In Trenton, N.J., three years after they had issued him a speeding summons, state police received a $15 check and a note from Robert A. Caldwell of Proctor, Ark.: "I can't stand it any longer. Here's your money . . . The highway patrolman who arrested me was a damn good Yankee...
Greatest Profession. One autumn day in 1921, "expecting to be met by the headmaster demanding the past participles of French verbs," Thornton arrived on the oak-studded campus near Trenton, N.J. There, for six years, while his expatriate contemporaries were scribbling and scrounging on the Left Bank, Wilder nursed and nudged a generation of Lawrenceville boys. "I am the only American of my generation," says he, "who did not go to Paris...
Pageant & Comedy. Ward shines in historical set-pieces: the pageantry of Burgoyne surrendering to Gates, the high comedy of the Hessians caught drunk and disheveled the day after Christmas in Trenton, the heroism of Benedict Arnold's almost successful march on Quebec. Ward tells what the soldiers ate. how discipline was enforced, which side did the better scouting. Most of the time, he concludes, the British outgeneraled and outfought the Americans...
More than four years after the murder of William Horner, an elderly Trenton junkman, the case of the "Trenton Six" (TIME, July 11, 1949) was still dragging through New Jersey courts. The six Negroes convicted of the crime got a new trial in February 1951, after the state supreme court decided that they had been denied their due rights under law (e.g., the jury was improperly charged). After a mistrial, four of the defendants were finally acquitted, two were sent to prison for life. Last week, the New Jersey supreme court ruled that the lower court had erred again, ordered...