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Under the law they had to trust their recollection on all the things that had been said in court during the three-week trial. They had heard Prosecutor Kelley's witnesses give an account of Kahahawai's kidnapping and the discovery of his corpse. They had listened to Lieut. Massie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Manslaughter, with Leniency | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

H. R. H. recalled, however, having ridden in a switchback at Wembley Fair in 1924 with her brother-in-law, Edward of Wales, who mischievously calls her "Queen Elizabeth."* News of the Duchess' "confession" was bracketed in British papers with this ultrasafe revelation: His Majesty the King-Emperor still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trollope | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Lawyer Darrow's whole case was based on the assumption that Lieut. Massie, in a fit of insanity induced by the confession of his wife's ravisher, actually did pull the trigger that resulted in Kahahawai's death. If the young husband who held the gun and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Blind Spot | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Proprietor Chauncey Depew Steele of Briarcliff Lodge is sympathetic to The Groups. Two years ago all the bellhops, chambermaids, desk clerks attended a Group meeting. Last week the 425 members of the house party, each paying $4 per day during the ten-day stay, had the place much to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God on the Hudson | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

State's Attorney (RKO) shows John Barrymore himself making an address to a jury which is surely as impassioned as the one (in A Free Soul) which last year got his brother Lionel a prize from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He is a criminal lawyer named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Compound Fallony | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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