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...years ago Roy Thomas Hollis was in a Georgia chain gang. He had twice been convicted of robbery. He sweated with pick & shovel "muscle crews" in tough camps, wore double chains, was lashed by a vicious warden. It was two years before he was classified as a trusty and unshackled...
...late Franklin D. Roosevelt was proud of being senior warden of St. James' Church at Hyde Park, N.Y. His father had been a vestryman before him. His first son, James, also served. St. James' and the Roosevelts were linked by tradi tion and sentiment. On Nov. 14, the Roosevelt-less vestry of ivy-covered...
Asked what the vestry of St. James' would do about the Bishop's bolt from the blue, Senior Warden Edmund Pendleton Rogers said: "I certainly think the vestry wouldn't go against Bishop Manning." Vestryman-elect Elliott Roosevelt (who had not asked to be a vestryman) said nothing...
Thumb Error. Near Placerville. Calif.. escaped Convict Eric Launblad took to the highway, finally thumbed a ride, was promptly nabbed by the driver: the prison warden...
...realize his vision of a country gentleman's everyday life, Trollope needed money; and his best way to make money was by making fiction out of his vision. He wrote for ten years, but it was not until the appearance of his fourth novel, The Warden, in which he first sketched the world of Barsetshire, that he earned anything from his work. His next novel...