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...pupils like Rosetta, who send in their completed lessons by mail. Rosetta resolutely kept at her lessons, switching to a battery radio and kerosene lamp when the family's moody generator failed, and her teachers soon came to know her as well as if she had a front-row desk in their classrooms. She got a prize for written composition at eleven, and last year she graduated from high school with an armful of honors-one of the few New Zealanders to make it all the way through radio school, and the first of the group to be accepted...
...have no intention of adding to the extensive verbiage that the book reviewers and drama critics have already piled up about the meaning and the ideas offered in MacLeish's play. I shall only say that I left my front-row seat three or so weeks ago with the feeling that the entire history of the theatre had existed solely to make possible this production of this play. Which is arrant nonsense, of course. Yet the statement is true at least to the extent that MacLeish has here adapted many diverse literary traditions covering a span of close...
...United States of America versus Bernard Goldfine," droned the clerk in a Washington Federal Court. "You are charged with contempt of Congress. How do you wish to plead?" Rising from a front-row seat the man for whom life has become a nervous round of "the U.S. v." walked to the bench, announced a firm "Not guilty." Basis of the charges: 18 instances, during a hearing last summer of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (TIME, July 14 et seq.) in which the 68-year-old Boston millionaire and friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams refused to answer questions...
...Mouth. Back of the hostility of Varner and other white witnesses was the man calling their shots. Prompting from a front-row seat was Alabama's attorney general and Governor-elect, John Patterson, 37. Patterson, at hearing's start, had tried to protest federal meddling in state business, had been gaveled into silence by Vice Chairman Robert G. Storey, dean of Southern Methodist University's law school, and principal interrogator for the commission. Thereafter Patterson counseled witnesses into obstinacy...
Composed and carefully groomed, Premier Félix Gaillard rose from his front-row chair in France's National Assembly last week and assured his countrymen that the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef constituted a display of "exemplary patience." By the time Gaillard spoke, dozens of foreign diplomats and journalists had visited Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef and confirmed Tunisian reports that a high percentage of the 209 casualties (79 dead, 130 wounded) inflicted by the French air force were women and children. Blandly ignoring these facts, Gaillard insisted that "the majority of the victims were soldiers of the Algerian F.L.N...