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...seems that the post will undoubtedly go to a dean. But why not Dean Martin or Dizzy Dean? Or if the job is too big for one man, how about splitting it up between three men: Dean, Whitter and Reynolds...
...California Youth Authority, an agency within the state's Department of Correction, was established in 1941 to handle the disposition of offenders under 21. The increasing rate of juvenile crime and recidivism and the exposure of scandalous conditions in the Fred C. Nelles reform school in Whitter by a public committee in 1940 prompted the state to create the Youth Authority. In May of 1940, the American Law Institute had issued a model law for the creation of an independent agency within state government to administer youthful offenders. The most controversial aspect of the Institute's proposal was that...
...Jackie de Sieges, Vassar Fredrick B. Harvey, Jr. Pussy Cassidy, Easton, Md. William H. Haskell Virginia Grant, Weston Abram W. Hatcher Margaret Gaft, Cambridge Robert A. Hawkins Virginia Garland, Mt. Ida Peter J. Hearst Gretchen Thannhauser, Brookline Richard Henry, Jr. Martha Elliott, Wellesley Carl M. Herbert, Jr. Ann Whitter, Cambridge Richard Herr Posy Platt, Wellesley Thomas A. J. Herzford Gay Crosby, Wellesley Henry R. Heyburn Phoebe Rotch, Boston John W. Hird, II Patricia German Richard A. Hirschfield Betty Johnson, Marblehead William A. Hoftyzer Jo Parrish, Smith Robert H. Hoskins Marguerite Allen, Wheelock William K. Humphrey Juliet Crowder, Wellesley Robert...
George's version was like Dalhart's but it was the likeness that made Judge Davis pronounce George the copycat. Dalhart learned the song from an older Whitter phonograph record in 1923, made several mistakes which are also in George's version. The engineer's name was Steve. Dalhart did not understand it on the record so called him Pete. Average, in stanza three, makes no sense. It was airbrakes in the original version...
Last week the Circuit Court reversed the District Court, decided that George was not the author of the folksong that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...