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...investigators that he acted only out of 1) simple humanity, or 2) a country boy's bewilderment at the big city, or 3) deference to orders from above. Last week Caudle was back before a House subcommittee to explain why he dropped a tax case against one Isadore Alford of Nashville in 1950. This time the Congressmen thought they might have a lead to a fourth motive-influence-when they popped a blunt question: Wasn't it true that Lamar had been taken on a duck hunt, and thus influenced, by Alford's attorney...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion at Harvard, yesterday favored the proposed change. He said "Humanities is what feeds the spirit of man. It is what we fight for and we live for. Natural sciences and social sciences are means to an end; humanities...
Married. Dr. Ewan Forbes-Sempill, 40, the former Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill, daughter of the late Lord Sempill, whose name and sex were officially changed (TIME, Sept. 22) after a gradual, nonsurgical course of treatment; and his housekeeper Isabella Mitchell, 37; both for the first time; in Alford, Scotland...
...Forbes-Sempill, Brux Lodge, Alford wishes to intimate that in future he will be known as Dr. Ewan Forbes-Sempill. All legal formalities have been completed...
...brilliant student who loved to flex her muscles in such masculine pastimes as hunting, shooting and fishing, she deplored the necessity of making a formal debut in London clad in feminine frills. Later on, after getting her M.D., she became the popular local doctor in the Scottish village of Alford (pop. 1,300). Elizabeth exchanged her skirts for the more manly kilt...