Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ross Wyatt took the stand, told in detail how Mary Jo had drawn two hearts, arrow-joined, when she applied for a job with him; how he first kissed her, how they became intimate three weeks later, how they took a ten-day trip to Florida at her suggestion, spent weekends in tourist camps and hotels, how she loved...
...witness stand, Miss Miller, smart in a blue tailored suit, told a sympathetic jury that Ross Wyatt had wooed her and pursued her for seven years; had kissed her the week he hired her as his secretary in 1931; had threatened to kill her brother if he interfered; had sworn to kill "both of you" if he found her going with another man. There were no real intimacies, said she: kisses and hugs, love letters, slaps, hair-pullings, finally escape to Chicago...
...stand went a score of witnesses: Mrs. Lela Wyatt, who divorced the classroom Casanova in 1936 after finding him "more times than she could count" with Mary Jo; Thelma Powell, buxom waitress, once the object of his affections; his sisters and his friends. Seven of them gave him a perfect alibi: that he was 250 miles from the explosion scene at the time. But careful detective work placed his car near the Miller house that night; established his purchase of a case of dynamite in March 1938 in Shreveport, La.; proved by dust analysis that dynamite had been carried...
Approximately 400 are expected to attend the annual meeting, where the main business will be settling the A. S. U's position on methods of keeping this country out of war. This issue involves a stand on the Russian invasion of Finland, which the local chapter condemned in a resolution last week...
...these, TIME marks with asterisks 16 books which are already classics or stand a chance of retaining eminence whether easily readable or not. *Of future value to historians and psychologists...