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...young republic's juiciest scandals. The real story, the Walzes conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before she declared martial law in the family and assigned little sister Nancy to the most ignoble servant tasks...
...Bowles and French Albert (The Plague) Camus, Italian Ennio Flaiano has found Africa a fertile field in which to cultivate an existentialist viewpoint. The unnamed lieutenant who narrates The Short Cut feels that he was the victim of events; even his murder of the Ethiopian girl seemed a deed to which he was driven by forces beyond his control. But his conscience worked against him, carried him into a feverish world where he became convinced that his victim had given him leprosy. When his careful inquiries about the disease aroused a doctor's suspicions, he took off into...
...plans which would introduce the relatives as a fourth party to the deed, it seems to me that they would give kinsmen who were eager to read the will an unfair advantage...
...Thou Shalt Not Kill." But that kind of argument was not material to the real case of Dr. Sander. Had he done a good deed or committed a great sin? The state's answer was that Dr. Sander had committed a sin against society, tearing apart some of its moral and legal fabric; that fabric had to be repaired, no matter what the defendant's own interpretation of what was right and what was wrong...
...testimonial expressing their faith in the 41-year-old doctor who had ended the life and suffering of a dying woman by giving her intravenous injections of air (TIME, Jan. 9). But his longtime friend, Attorney General William Phinney, saw Sander as a killer who must answer for his deed before...