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Died. Sara Allgood, 66, for a quarter-century one of Dublin's Abbey Players (Juno and the Pay cock), in recent years a Hollywood character actress (How Green Was My Valley); of a heart ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Dublin-born, she became at 18 a member ("the youngest and humblest," she recalled) of the Irish National Theatre Society, a group of patriotic enthusiasts (including Padraic Colum, George Russell, William Butler Yeats) who founded the Abbey Theatre and sparked the Irish Revival. A cinemactress on & off since 1929 (Blackmail, the first British talking picture), she brightened dozens...
...trainers, the center of the universe is the sleepy village of Grand Junction (pop. 750), Tenn. The National Field Trial Championship, World Series of U.S. bird-dog competition, has been held there for 52 years at Ames Plantation - a 27,000-acre expanse of quail-rustled sedge and woodland with a great ante-bellum mansion, rows of hospital-clean kennels and stables floored in handmade bricks...
...BELL JR. Woodland Hills, Calif...
...Ohio, when a jury finds a man guilty of a capital crime, the death penalty is mandatory unless the jury recommends mercy. The first jury that heard Cecil Yankey's trial for the crowbar murder of 71-year-old Leroy Woodland in 1947 couldn't reach a verdict. Yankey agreed to plead guilty, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a one-judge court...
...with rodents, and the germ is carried to man by rat fleas. The West, in its great open spaces, has a zooful of rodents which have become infested with rat fleas, among them prairie dogs, picket-pin gophers, ground squirrels, chipmunks. The Public Health Service called the disease "sylvatic (woodland) plague." It is still bubonic, in the sense that it can cause swelling of the lymph glands of the armpit or groin, but it has become so rare that the word plague could well be dropped...