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...starting his Saragossa offensive now, Leftist General Sebastian Pozas had good reason last week. But six weeks of decent fighting weather remain before the bitter Spanish winter closes down. Gijon, last Leftist stronghold on the Bay of Biscay, was so close to capture that most of its officials had already fled to sanctuary in France, and in the field of foreign diplomacy, where so much of Spain's war has been fought, Generalissimo Franco's chief supporter, Italy, was finishing a most successful week...
...first Mr. Martin denied that he pulled a pistol, later tried to laugh it off, declaring that his life had been threatened on 500 different occasions. Said he: "Intelligent and decent citizens don't come to one's hotel room and try to break the door down. Only thugs and gangsters do that...
TIME, how could you, how could you, how could you! The Lowells are a pretty decent tribe. They condescend to speak to the Cabots. It is the clan of the Cabots who, traditionally, converse only with God [TIME, Sept. 6]. And the word isn't speak-it is talk. I visited the grave of my life-long friend, Dr. John C. Bossidy, and, sure enough, he had turned over. Who could blame...
...sing a parody of the German Schnitzel-bank song about the ransom note and the baby's sleeping garment, and Edward J. Reilly took the defense with small chance of pay because "it's a criminal lawyer's dream of a case." To millions of decent U. S. citizens the Flemington trial seemed more like a nightmare, and fortnight ago, after long study, a committee of 18 leading U. S. editors, publishers and lawyers agreed that it was "the most spectacular and depressing example of improper publicity and professional misconduct ever presented to the people...
...wider approval for conducting a trial with dignity and fairness than solemn, paternal Judge Trenchard. The A. B. A. committee report does not imply otherwise, is more concerned with the antics which go on outside the courtroom and beyond the judge's normal jurisdiction. To keep trials decent outside as well as inside, the report concludes: "This committee is clear that if local bar associations would resolutely enforce the obvious and known requirements of the code of professional ethics upon the lawyers who are subject to the disciplinary actions of the Bar, a very substantial part of the most...