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...ethics." Says Oppenheimer: "Ryder felt and thought and talked as a Stoic ... a special subclass of the people who have a tragic sense of life, in that they attribute to human actions the completely decisive role in the difference between salvation and damnation. Ryder knew that a man could commit irretrievable error, and that in the face of this fact, all others were secondary." Tartly intolerant of humbug, laziness, stupidity and deceit, Ryder thought that "Any man who does a hard thing well is automatically respectable and worthy of respect...
...Maine woman, a widow of 45, and she lived alone. When she had made up her mind to commit suicide, she laid her chin on the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun and pulled the trigger. The charge tore through her tongue, palate and nose, went on through the front part of the brain and out through the forehead...
...pronouncing sentence, Federal District Judge William C. Mathes declared grimly: "His life, if spared, would not be worth living. The only worthwhile use for the life of a traitor is to serve as an example to those of weak moral fiber who might hereafter be tempted to commit treason against the U.S." Unless a higher court reverses the verdict or the President intervenes, he will die in the San Quentin gas chamber...
...Hiskey, found that he held a reserve commission in the Army, had him called up and sent to duty on the Canol project in the Yukon, where "he counted underwear." The committee recommended that Hiskey, his exwife, Marcia, Chapin, and the missing Adams be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit espionage...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who commit murder just for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...