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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ramifications of the feud), it summons up the life of the mountains in the days before the fighting began: little streams, dropping 25 feet to the mile, with names like Grapevine, Blackberry, Sulphur, Sycamore, Turkey and Buffalo; old families of English stock bearing names like Vance, Chafin, Smith, Weddington, Varney, Cline and Trent; forests of oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, linden, beech, sycamore; cabins with quiet hospitality, plenty of food, and courteous, high-strung, honest and proud people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Folk Feud | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Lionel, biggest toy train maker, expects to sell more trains (about $10 million worth) than the whole industry sold in its best prewar year. For grownup buffs, Chicago's Varney Scale Models Inc. invested $50,000 in drawings and dies for a new locomotive model. It has already sold 1,000 kits of parts at $100 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Whee! | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...some candy. He called the cops, then drove her on into a police ambush at Madill, Okla. Eva surrendered meekly-the pistol was unloaded. "I was tired of school," she said, "and I decided to be an outlaw." ¶ At Bangor, Me., 14-year-old Francis Edwin Varney was charged with murdering his 12-year-old sister with a sharp kitchen knife. ¶ In The Bronx, three teen-age Negro girls, members of a gang known as the "Fivies," were charged with mugging a shopkeeper named Samuel Flamenbaum. Said he: one girl crooked an arm around his neck, choked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Children's Hour | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Spectators tomorrow night will be watching one of New England's greatest centers in Charley Tibbs, six foot two standout. Fred Jenkins, another outstanding star, and Phil Varney will be at forward, with Phil Gomez and Henry Pecheux pairing at the guards. All except Gomez are seniors, and the whole team has a reputation as ball handlers and excellent shots...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: HOOPSTERS TO END EXAM LAYOFF WITH TUFTS ENCOUNTER | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

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