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Only three weeks previously, Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick, Los Angeles, before whom was tried a similar case?the Government trying to cancel the lease of Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 (known as Elk Hills) to the Doheny interests?had rendered his decision (TIME, June 8). He had decided that...
Little more than 338 years after the execution of Mary Queen of Scots** at Fotheringhay Castle, Ainsworth Mitchell, Home Office criminologist, came to the conclusion that the letters written to Babington expressing approval of a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth were not written by Mary but by her secretary and...
The Phillips Brooks House hand-book for Freshmen, excellent though it is in design and execution, gives no hints for hot weather. In extreme cases, where a cool retreat in which to study is imperative, the harassed undergraduate may take a tip from the Irish ditch digger's wife, who...
Five others -Petrini, Kossofsky, Grancharoff, Abadjieff, Dimitroff-who are all at large-sentenced in absence. Public execution.
Francine Larrimore, seductive and technically inefficient actress, was involved. Minute inspection indicated serious flaws in taste and execution of her duties. Yet what the entertainment might have stumbled to without her is not convenient to conjecture.