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...worth of government bonds. It took the best efforts of France's Serété three years to determine just how De Récy had got the bonds and what he had done with them. One local judge was sent whimpering to an insane asylum after working on the complicated case...
...well remembered are Cartoonist Billy Ireland (a man so kind he once complimented a friend's wife with "Edna, that's the prettiest washing out there I ever saw"), several profs at Thurber's Ohio State University, the self-appointed athletic coach of Columbus' asylum for the blind. Mainly the Album is a lesson in human affection, shrewd but not hard, done with a wonderful eye for idiosyncrasies carried with dignity, human follies borne with grace. That Author Thurber loves these people, their unmistakable Midwestern American grain, is clear on every page. Plain folk have never...
...when it was taken away from prison authority and given to the Ministry of Health, the big, grim hospital has been known officially as the Broadmoor Institution. Many a Berkshire villager roundabout ardently wishes it would go back to its honest old name: Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Broadmoor's tenants, the villagers feel, are far too dangerous to be treated as mere hospital patients. Take, for example, young John Thomas Straffen...
...batted around the world, dodging extradition to Indonesia, and in 1950 he found grudging asylum in Brussels. There, never rich enough to give up dreaming of wealth and new adventures but never quite poor enough to feel obliged to take a job, he flirted with new schemes of an uprising in the Indies. He sent his wife and three children back to The Netherlands, and recently crossed the border himself to visit them and some friends. It was on that expedition last week that Amsterdam police caught...
...Belgrade lawyer Nikola Mrvojevic and five confederates brandished two revolvers and a knife on a plane from Belgrade for Ljubljana, forced the pilot to head for Graz, in the British zone of Austria. In Graz, Mrvojevic asked political asylum. In his coat lining, the lawyer carried Maria Theresa dollars, gold napoleons...