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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified he saw her pistol-whip a crippled widow to death. Barbara, Santo and Perkins were convicted, and Barbara became the third woman in California to be sentenced to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death of a Sea Gull | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...postal and civil-service pay raise, partly because Congress had refused to finance it with higher postal rates. Repeating this objection last week, the President spoke of "the imperative need for postal rates that will make the postal service self-supporting and be based on service rendered to the user." Said he: "We can no longer afford to continue a costly deficit operation paid for by millions of taxpayers in amounts out of all proportion to the postal services that they as individuals receive." His other reasons for the veto: the bill 1) discriminates against rural letter carriers, special-delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. 53 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...kind; it might not have all the high-quality wheat that U.S. bakers need. Of the U.S.'s billion-bushel stockpile of wheat, farmers and bakers estimate that only 10% to 25% is usable in its present form by the breadmaking industry-the single biggest wheat user. The rest would have to be upgraded by blending it with strong-gluten wheat.* But there is comparatively little strong-gluten wheat available with which to do the blending. Said Nebraska Wheat Farmer Herb Hughes, member of a five-man board that advises Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson on the operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Plenty of Nothing | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...knows the faculty and its needs for research and teaching, the students' needs for learning, and he knows the library intimately both as scholar-user and as administrator-friend. Paul Buck is in Harvard's great tradition of scholar-librarians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck to Serve as University Library Director | 10/13/1954 | See Source »

World Music Festivals (Sun. 2 :30 p.m., CBS). Wagner's Tannhäuser, recorded at Bayreuth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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