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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hunt. But one outsider heard the commotion. A nurse in a hospital, some 200 ft. from the jail, telephoned the town marshal, who called Sheriff W. Osborne Moody. Quickly Moody called his deputies, alerted the highway patrol, the city police. Soon a huge posse fanned out from Poplarville into the countryside of heavy woods crisscrossed with streams. Within a few hours, Mississippi's Governor James P. Coleman called...
...Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor and author of several well-known works in philosophy and philology, will retire on June 30, after 20 years of service to the University...
Vellucci told the City Council that he had recently been approached by Rodney W. Long '22, a local realtor, who asked his help in getting co-operation from various city organizations. Long represented a group interested in putting five 20-story apartment houses on the site, according to Vellucci...
POINTS OF VIEW (284 pp.)-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday...
What happens to very old writers when they stop writing? In the case of W. Somerset Maugham, now 85, he just goes right on writing. Over the past ten years he has regularly announced his retirement, and now he once more informs the world that his new book, Points of View, is "absolutely my last." A few critics will hope he means it; in longhair circles the old storyteller has almost never been ranked above a sound literary carpenter. Yet few professional writers can honestly say that they do not envy his easy style, his civilized yarner's gift...