Word: franklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Pointing a finger at Schoolteacher Franklyn Olson, 23, the justice of the peace intoned: "Young man, your crime is as serious as if you had given them marijuana cigarettes." Olson's crime: assigning five schoolboys in Thompson, Mich, to read The Stranger, by France's late Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Albert Camus. Olson's sentence: a $100 fine and 90 days in the county jail...
...Abundant Life." This balderdash was devised by Temple Collegiate's proprietor, William Franklyn Wolsey, 56, who calls himself Archbishop John I of Vancouver. Born in Saskatchewan, where he quit school after the sixth grade, the bearded divine once served two years in a Milwaukee jail for abandoning his four children, later beat a rap for embezzlement. Wolsey's degree as a "biopsychologist" comes from Taylor University of Biopsycho-Dynamic Science, a Chattanooga diploma mill. After serving in the Canadian army during World War II, he was "ordained" in London as a "Christian minister" by a former waiter...