Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange as the Ozark back country where it was enacted was the trial last week at Mountain View, Ark. of four "hill barons" indicted for the murder of Connie Franklin (TIME, Dec. 9). Prime witness for the defense was a gaunt, sun-reddened farmhand who swore he was Connie Franklin himself...
...jury acquitted the four hillmen of murder. Many a proud Arkansan, indignant at the publicity given such dark doings in the Ozarks, protested widely that they were not typical of their State, cited big city bombings and murder as equally fearful. The acquittal at Mountain View was hailed as a vindication for Arkansas...
...Tampas, Col., Mrs. Thomas Wheeler listened to the radio in her hotel lobby. On the program was a hog-calling contest being broadcast from Prairie View, Kan. At an especially eloquent call a pig broke out of its pen nearby and charged squealing into the lobby where it settled down and went to sleep...
...modern life and the furious tempo of its entertainments may turn to the fine arts for a cultivation of their vacant time. In such a belief I am striving year after year to interpret to people, distracted by . . . worthless diversions, not only the artist's point of view, collectively, as a state of mind common' to all true artists . . . but also an artist's point of view, whichever of the million and one I happen to be considering...
Alarmists who view the Royal Dutch Shell's U. S. expansion as "invasion" last week had cause for excitement. By taking over operation of the Penn Oil Co.'s 65 service stations in the District of Columbia, Shell occupied the U. S. capital...