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What 1940s Novel Was Set in a Fictional Version of Doylestown?
You are thinking of James Gould Cozzens and his 1942 novel, "The Just and The Unjust."
The novel is about a 1939 murder trial in the sleepy county seat of Childerstown. Cozzens never mentions the name of the county or the state, but the setting is based on Doylestown.
To research his novel, Cozzens spent many hours attending trials in the Bucks County Courthouse, built in 1878. He dedicated the book to Edward G. Biester, who served as the county's only assistant district attorney from 1932 to 1938, district attorney from 1938 to 1949, and a county judge from 1949 to 1970. (Biester's son, Edward G. Biester Jr., represented Bucks County in Congress from 1967 to 1977 and was a county judge from 1980 to 2006.)
Cozzens' fictional courthouse is located at Court and Broad streets, just like the actual courthouse, and its description is similar to the real one.
The Childerstown courthouse had been erected in 1880, and architects of the period either did not understand the principles of acoustics or held them secondary to that day's taste for rich stateliness and fancy grandeur. Abutting on the back side of the clock-towered stone structure which faced Court Street over steps, walks, and a small fountain, and which housed the record rooms and clerks' offices, the architects built as a main courtroom the recognizable dodecagonal [12-sided] chapter house of some monstrous Gothic cathedral whose incredible corporate body presumably numbered five hundred canons.
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(127 diggs) Non-Teachers Lil Wayne & Nicki Minaj Named Teachers of the Year
Young Money rappers Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj have been singled out as
Male and Female Teachers of the Year by the South Florida-based
education service Better Education Place (BEP). The pair, seen above
teaching the basics of giving and receiving a lap dance at
BankAtlantic Center in April, are well on their way to some honorary
degrees. No word on where Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa figured into the
rankings.
Young Money rappers Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj have been singled out asMale and Female Teachers of the Year by the South Florida-based
education service Better Education Place (BEP). The pair, seen above
teaching the basics of giving and receiving a lap dance at
BankAtlantic Center in April, are well on their way to some honorary
degrees. No word on where Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa figured into the
rankings.
(175 diggs) Mexican Student Named Police Chief; Nobody Else Wanted Job
A 20-year-old female student majoring in criminology has been named police chief of a violence-torn northern Mexican border town -- because nobody else wanted the job. Marisol Valles became director of municipal public security of Guadalupe on October 18 "since she was the only person to accept the position," according to the mayor's office.
A 20-year-old female student majoring in criminology has been named police chief of a violence-torn northern Mexican border town -- because nobody else wanted the job. Marisol Valles became director of municipal public security of Guadalupe on October 18 "since she was the only person to accept the position," according to the mayor's office.
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Ahead of Europe's largest gathering of crime writers in Harrogate, we speak to three female novelists who are making their names in the crowded marketplace of crime fiction.
Ahead of Europe's largest gathering of crime writers in Harrogate, we speak to three female novelists who are making their names in the crowded marketplace of crime fiction.
(148 diggs) IBM names female chief executive
Technology giant IBM has appointed Virginia Rometty its first ever female chief executive, taking over in January.
Technology giant IBM has appointed Virginia Rometty its first ever female chief executive, taking over in January.
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Lewis wanted the puppy, named Poplin, killed because it was a gift from a female ex-lover with whom she doesn’t get along, said Muskogee County sheriff’s deputy George Roberson.
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