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...where dark, violent deeds are hard to imagine and slums are small enough to be swept under the carpet. Born and raised in Old Saybrook, Conn., Negro Author Ann Petry has the background to make her story fresh and credible. Apart from a deplorable tendency toward short flights of bogus impressionist prose, she also has the easy writing ability to tell a warm, readable story...
Under the Instep, No Count. Frequently, Fabian made flimsy clues pay big detection dividends. He once flushed a bogus count bent on marrying a U.S. heiress by noting that his shoes had not been polished under the instep, as they would have been had the "count" stayed in swank hotels. Another time Fabian solved a jewel-shop robbery largely because it had been observed that the thief wore a tropical suit and, as he left the scene, cursed a bystander in Arabic. After ferreting out further details from jewel fences, Fabian nabbed a discharged member of the Palestine police force...
...that his long overdue employee would turn up. For years passed and this spring when the errant professor was almost forgotten, a small news item appeared in Milwaukee newspapers. The College of Wooster, with a collective red face, had just discharged one Robert Peters, a fraudulent "professor" with bogus references and no degrees. No one at Lawrence knows why Peters changed his mind about the College, but the incident is always related with a sigh of relief...
...that his long overdue employee would turn up. Four years passed and this spring when the errant professor was almost forgotten, a small news item appeared in Milwaukee newspapers. The College of Wooster, with a collective red face, had just discharged one Robert Peters, a fraudulent "professor" with bogus references and no degrees. No one at Lawrence knows why Peters changed his mind about the College, but the incident is always related with a sigh of relief...
Speaking for the majority, Justice Harold Burton held that Taft-Hartley banned featherbedding only when a union exacted payment for service not performed. The need, or usefulness of the service, was immaterial. Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Clark and Douglas dissented. Said Douglas: "In no sense ... is [bogus] 'service' to the employer...