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...outcome of his game, the judge ruled: "The accused is acquitted. The court may not judge in a sphere where science remains undecided. . . . No one has a right to complain if, going to a clairvoyant, he does not learn the truth, even as no one ought to find fault if he does not draw the winning number in a lottery...
Indoor Hop. When Inventor Maitland Barkelew Bleecker brought forth the helicopter on which he had been working for four years with Curtiss engineers (TIME, June 30) a fault in the lubricating system prevented flight tests. Last week changes had been completed, but conditions were not yet right for outdoor flying. Impatient, youthful Inventor Bleecker tied a rope to the keel of the little machine inside its hangar at Valley Stream, Long Island. Then he started the motor, entered the cockpit, gently opened the throttle. The craft rose vertically from the hangar floor, hovered under the roof...
Actually there is little likelihood that the Vatican will ever beatify indomitable Zita's husband. Kaiser Karl was a devout Catholic, led a respectable life, was conscientious as an army officer. His fault was that, flaccid and morally spineless to a degree, he was trusted from one moment to the next by no one, from his great- uncle Franz Josef I to his royal "cousin" Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The two years (1916-18) in which he wore the slightly age-battered crown of St. Stephen were a succession of backings and fillings and unfulfilled political pledges...
...Holiness and Justice Victor James Dowling of New York: His Holiness: "How do I look? Do I look well? ... I cannot explain even to myself how it has been possible to spread such bad news about my 'poor health.' You can be sure it was not my fault if that information was so widespread. . . . Thanks be to God, I am feeling most well, and can do everything I set out to do. What more could a man ask? . . . I cannot slow down my audiences. People come from every part of the world to see their common Father...
...Stegg of Manila, P. I., reached Chicago last week to attend the Chicago Methodist Camp Meeting. Quickly he inspected the community, made a conclusion: ''Chicago is the most godless city in the world. . . . The fault lies not with flaming youth, but with men and women in their foolish, fat forties. Forty per cent of Chicago high school girls disapprove of petting. That is better than they did in my day, all of 30% better...