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Penrose's background was in education, not politics. His father rescued Whitman College in Walla Walla (Wash.) from abandonment, served 40 years as Whitman's president. Young "Binks" Penrose went to Whitman, sang bass, played varsity tennis, majored in chemistry and Greek. Then, on his father's advice, the 20-year-old youngster sailed for A.U.B. and a three-year hitch as an instructor. Back in the U.S., Penrose took a Ph.D. at Columbia, taught at Whitman and Rockford Colleges, made a wartime jump to the OSS and Cairo as a Near East expert...
Penmanship. In Walla Walla, Wash., a week after Francis Drake got a suspended sentence for petty larceny and a dollar in cash from benign Judge T. A. Paul, he turned up in court on a forgery charge, explained that he had used the court's dollar to buy a fountain...
...State of Washington's Walla Walla penitentiary, Negro Jake Bird, 46, about to die on the gallows for the ax-murder of a Tacoma woman, won a 60-day reprieve by confessing that he could "clear up" 44 other murders...
...Walla Walla, Wash., two teams of convicts played behind Washington State Penitentiary walls in the first Stone Bowl game. The star: a 155-lb. halfback known as "Floor Show" Fletcher (pen name: No. 21154), a sophomore who scored both touchdowns for the prison All-Stars. Said Referee Tom Deering, who was brought in from the outside: "It was the cleanest game I've worked all season...
...Stations. Despite the hoarse cries of policemen, crowds of women gathered before stores, office workers went as usual to tall buildings. Many a citizen, numbed at the whole idea, simply stood gaping along the sidewalks. By the time the 18-hour ban was suddenly lifted, Manhattan was deader than Walla Walla, Wash. on a quiet Sunday...