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...most curious situation, perhaps unique in these courts," mused Mr. Justice Devlin last week, "that the act of murder has to be proved by expert evidence." Even Dr. John Bodkin Adams, the defendant in one of the longest murder trials in Old Bailey's history, was said to have asked in wonderment, "Can you prove it was murder?", when police arrested him last December on suspicion of having poisoned his eccentric old patient, Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell, in seaside Eastbourne six years earlier...
...lost most from the nation's longest, bitterest big labor dispute? The United Auto Workers' three-year-old strike against Kohler Co. of Kohler, Wis. has cost the U.A.W. $10 million in strike benefits paid to about 2,800 original strikers, plus $2,000,000 in other expenses, e.g., promoting a nationwide boycott of Kohler plumbing fixtures. But the union contends that Kohler Co. has lost $25 million to $35 million in sales. The family-owned company, run by hard-bitten President Herbert V. Kohler, 65, disputes this claim. Although it publishes no annual report, the company says...
...Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar of skunk juice to use in stink bombs.) Described as a physical coward by those who have known him longest, Beck never suffered so much as a hangnail. But such was the shadow he cast through his goon squad, that the rank-and-file Teamster still thinks of him as "Big Dave...
...Rice intends to return to Harran soon, and excavate the ruins of Saladin's mosque. He hopes that under its tumbled stones he will find the remains of the temple of Sin. If such a temple exists, it can probably claim to be the one used longest by the same religion...
...Gaston Is No Name." Trailbreaker for the brothers, and the one who in the end has had the longest sustained achievement, is the eldest, christened Gaston, but who quickly changed his name to the more romantic Jacques Villon ("Gaston is no name for anyone, let alone a painter,'' says Marcel). Sobersided and nicknamed "Grandpa" by the family, Jacques Villon has spent a lifetime fishing in the still, deep pools of his own sensibility...