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¶In Manhattan's special sessions court this week Gambler Erickson meekly entered a plea of guilty on all counts (maximum penalty on each: $500 fine and one year in jail). But a trial might have been worse. Hogan's men had found that a big chunk of...
Adonis & Hercules. Although Pigs waddles rapidly through world porcine history in a hurry to concentrate on U.S. hogs, it nevertheless roots up enough factual truffles along the way to qualify for its ambitious title. The pig, "the most primitive form of domestic mammal that exists today," is 39 million years...
Punching the Wall. Last week John, at 32, was looking much better, and feeling like another man. He was doing all right at his $38-a-week job in a small factory which makes household goods. Like a blind man with new-found sight, he was discovering the normal give...
From that year until 1942, when the war caused abandonment of the Society, the organization produced "Acts and Galatea," Purcell's "Dido and Aneas" and "King Arthur," Dr. John Blow's "Venus and Adonis," and in 1942, the world premier of "Solomon and Balkis" by Randall Thompson '20, professor of...
Out of school, Senators had fun. At a Maine dinner, acidulous Bob Taft challenged the Democrats to a beauty contest. Florida's nimble-witted Claude Pepper, no Adonis either, cracked: "In a beauty contest I am paired with the Senator from Ohio."