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A Louisiana judge, a juvenile officer and a welfare worker decided that Mrs. Erne Crawford was fit to mother the baby boy whom she first swore a brindle dog dropped at her Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Holy Moses (Cont'd) | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Born in Pontiac, Ill., 58 years ago, Metalman Marsh began fiddling with chemistry in a woodshed. Quitting the University of Illinois after an argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Metalman's Medal | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

U. S. airlines were still smarting from the governmental spanking they had received week before (see p. 26), when last week it looked as if the next trip to the Federal woodshed might be taken by air manufacturers with military contracts. The House Military Affairs Committee was investigating makers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Manufacturers to Woodshed? | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

Cliff Collins, farmer, went to bed early that night. His house, with every window dark, stood at the edge of some cottonwoods. His daughter, a thin girl of 20 who had cooked for him since his wife died, slept in the next room; his son slept downstairs with his boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: In Toombs | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

In a few moments the children emerged from the woodshed into the yard, bearing between them what was to all appearances the lifeless remains of small Nathan Ellison. They deposited their burden on the kitchen floor and adorned its limpness with two sunflowers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

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