Word: willing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Opie Read, 86, homespinning Tennessee wit, last of the Mark Twain school, "greatest literary shortstop of his time"; of old age; in Chicago, Ill. Huge, gangling Opie Read wrote 55 books, edited the once famed humorous paper, The Arkansas Traveler. Like Oklahoma Wit Will Rogers, he belittled his own...
In Cincinnati, Ohio, schoolboys, aged 9 to 12, organized a "Black X" gang, exacted tribute of 1? to 20? from their schoolmates for allowing them, to go to school without getting beaten up. One mother who received a note ("We want 15 cents by Monday or else we will go...
In San Quentin, Calif., prison officials admitted why one prisoner (alone among 6,000) was allowed to wear a beard. Louis Gianopolis, an old shepherd, when taken to the prison barber to be shaved, screamed: "You're not the boss here, God is boss and you will be punished...
Dr. Kirk hopes that the test will soon be adopted by the health departments of 19 States which are bound by law to test all applicants for marriage licenses. Much cheaper than a Wassermann test (which takes a day), although requiring just as skilled attention, a Laughlen test should cost...
Elected president of the National Association of Performing Artists, an organization of musicians to protect their work against unauthorized recording, was James John ("Jimmie") Walker, ex-Mayor of New York City, ex-composer (Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May?). Keynoted talented Artist Walker: "This organization...