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Declared the court: "The applicant has made no attempt to offer anything in the way of an affirmative showing that with respect to the crime in question he is in truth and in fact an innocent man. . . . He was the friend and associate of persons actively engaged in plotting, attempting...
Last week in Manhattan many a prominent citizen, many an obscure citizen, and every soap dealer received an invitation reading in part: "The National Soap Sculpture Committee requests the honor of your presence at the sixth annual exhibition of small sculptures in white soap for the Procter & Gamble prizes. . . ." Well...
THE LAST MILE?Audiences find out what it feels like to await execution (TiME, Feb. 24).
Terrible though his crimes are, Coachman Kuerten ranks third on the list of Germany's post-War "mass murderers." His record was exceeded by "Harrman of Hanover" and "Angerstein of North Germany"?probably the most ferocious, wholesale destroyers of life (except in Wartime) since the Middle Ages. Oddly enough...
The election of two Seniors to the committee on admissions of the Harvard Club of Boston will be the first step towards the execution of the club's decision to give undergraduates an opportunity to become members in their final year at college. The selection of the two Seniors will...