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With his savings and $9,000 borrowed from local businessmen, he bought the North Attleboro Evening Chronicle in 1908. One of his backers was G. K. Webster, president of a silverware plant and a power in Massachusetts' 14th District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: MARTIN | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Cornell Varsity: stroke, Collyer; 7, von Wrangell; 6, Morehouse; 5, Story; 4, Allsopp; 3, Hepburn; 2, Ayers; bow, Webster; cox, Conable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Opens Against Cornell | 5/1/1948 | See Source »

...Many whodunit addicts think that a suspect cannot be held for murder unless there is a corpus delicti-"often used erroneously to designate the physical body of the victim of a murder" (Webster). Actually, corpus delicti is the "substantial and fundamental facts necessary to the commission of a crime." Britain's last murder-without-body was in 1934, when a poultry breeder, Thomas Joseph Davidson, drowned his eight-year-old son. He was sent to prison for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Don Jimmy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...pound class: Knight defeated Harrington; Bullitt defeated Peppard; Franklin defeated Webster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boxers Complete Opening Fights; Finals Tomorrow | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

...Cliffe presentation of Fry's "Phoenix Too Frequent" is a trial run of the London hit which Broadway producer Margaret Webster plans to produce in New York next fall. Miss Webster's former assistant, Florida Frebus, now an independent producer, will come to Cambridge next month to coach the cast and gauge audience reactions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler's Twin Bill for Spring Offers American Premiere | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

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