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...ornate bed. In California lunch rooms are built like igloos, puppies, derby hats. At California Institute of Technology work Nobel Prize-winning Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and Physicist Robert Millikan. California has more medical quacks than any state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail at San Quentin, kneels prayerfully at the feet of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. California blinks its eyes from the glare of kleig lights in hysterical Hollywood, is lulled by the mission bells of Santa Barbara. Anything can happen in fabulous California. What will happen in California...
...grace fully to daily photographing and interviewing, nodded to friends in court. Said his old protegee, Singer Mary McCormic, from the spectators' benches: "This looks like comic opera to me." Far from comic to old Insull, however, is the Government's threat: a maximum sentence of 50 years in jail and $250,000 fine. If acquitted, he will be tried under the Bankruptcy Law. If again acquitted, he will be tried by the State of Illinois...
...straightway, rounded up five Suk natives and had them flogged vigorously with a tire. When the tire broke, she herself brought up a leather razor strop and the last man was flogged with that. Seventeen days later he died in hospital. Major and Mrs. Selwyn and five servants were jailed. Utterly finished, the major contracted blackwater fever in jail and died too. Mrs. Selwyn fell ill but recovered. Last week she and her servants were on trial in Eldoret for manslaughter...
...British judge suggested last week that the facts did not amount to murder. The Boer jury pondered, brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommendation for mercy. The judge sentenced Mrs. Selwyn to twelve months in jail, her servants to one month. By that time the giraffe's injury to the telegraph line had been repaired and the news went...
...York Aquarium came an ichthyologist to testify that no pickerel in his experience had ever shrunk more than a quarter of an inch. Indignantly Emil Schoor changed his mind about dropping the case, asked for a change of venue. The court refused the petition, clapped the defendant in jail. Released on bail, Schoor went to the State Supreme Court, got his change of venue. The pickerel stayed...