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RETREAT FROM GLORY-R. H. Bruce Lockhart-Putnam ($3).Further frank up-&-down autobiography by the author of British Agent...
Adapted from incidents in Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart's autobiography. British Agent is lifted a notch above the level of run-of-the-mill spy pictures by the eloquent dialog by Laird Doyle, by expert performances by Howard and Francis. Good shot: a firing squad dealing with one of Locke's confreres...
...David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer is a British linguist and retired Indian Army officer who has published several scholarly papers on the phonology and syntax of Persian dialects. Last summer Lieut.-Colonel Lorimer left England to spend a year and a half with the Burushu people in the mountainous north corner of India and round out an exhaustive study of their language, customs, origin. Unruly, boisterous, athletic, the 17,600 Burushu are not much like their lackadaisical neighbors of India's plains and valleys. They speak a queer, syntactically complex language called Burushaski, with no less than four genders. Lieut...
...Shreveport, La. last week, a slack-jawed half-wit called Fred Lockhart, 38, confessed that he had lured Mae Griffin, 15, into the nearby woods. There Lockhart, an itinerant maker and seller of artificial butterflies for home decoration, stabbed Mae Griffin in the side when she resisted his advances, raped her while she was dying. As soon as the story got around Shreveport, a mob of 5,000 rushed the Caddo parish courthouse where Lockhart was held. Two young women shrieked that the mob was "yellow" if it did not "go in and get him." It took four hours...
Upstairs reporters found Lockhart cringing in his cell. He had two more confessions to make. One was that he had escaped from a Georgia chain gang in 1931 after assaulting another girl. The other was that his real name was B. B. ("Bunce'') Napier. On his trembling lap lay a Bible opened to Matthew 7: 1-2: Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Napier said he guessed he knew how Leo Frank felt that...