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...with a Hitler haircut marched into the prosecutor's office in the German city of Lübeck a fortnight ago, and told a story that made the cops gasp. His name: Lothar Malskat, 39, artist by trade, and one of the painters who restored the bomb-burned 13th and 14th century frescoes in Lübeck's Lutheran Church of St. Mary (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951). His trouble: he was an art forger and he wanted to confess his crimes. In the past few years, he said, he and another artist named Dietrich Fey, the boss...
...teachers did their best to avoid answering. They invoked the First, Fifth, Sixth and 13th Amendments to the Constitution. In the end, 18 of them took refuge in the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. As they testified, they knew that the New York City board of education was listening. The board contends that under the city charter, any municipal employee-cop, teacher, fireman or bureaucrat-who refuses to answer on the ground of self-incrimination may be fired from...
...lounge suits, delivered their verdict: Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn was, in fact and in law, Viscount Dudhope, Lord Scrymgeour. The Earl of Lauderdale, commented Lord Normand, glowering backwards three centuries, had shown the "grossest and most unscrupulous covetness." On his estate at Birkhill. Fifeshire, the tall, kilted fourth (or 13th, no one was quite sure which) Viscount Dudhope sounded disconsolate: "You know, nobody in the family really wanted to be a peer. Bit of a nuisance. I'm not keen myself. I prefer...
From Porter, Taft's analysis of the Texas situation later brought a hard-hitting statement: "In Senator Taft's letter to the national committee, in which he was permitted ... to appear as an advocate and judge ... he showed cynical disregard of morality ... In the 7th, 13th and 16th Congressional Districts, there were no contests. When the Eisenhower delegates from those districts walked out of the state convention and joined the Eisenhower convention, there were no delegates remaining to represent those districts. And yet Senator Taft claims in his letter that he won those districts...
Originally, the Indian zamindar (land agent) was a creature of the Turks, who ruled India in the 13th century. His function was simply to skim off a fat slice (often 50%) of the peasant soil-tiller's earnings, keep a cut for himself, and turn the rest over to his superior on the feudal ladder. Under the Moguls, who followed the Turks, India's peasants were systematically exploited but rarely dispossessed...