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Richard Hottelet, arrested March 15 by Berlin Gestapo agents on charges of spying for an "enemy power," was tossed into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer...
Decided last week, just 24 days less than a year after it began, was the longest court trial ever held in Texas. Involving big Humble Oil & Refining Co. and 5,000 little claimants, the trial was as picturesque as an old explorer's diary. It was so complicated that Court Reporter G. L. Dahl filled 327 notebooks with almost 5,000,000 words of testimony, accumulated so many exhibits that he finally took to hauling them to the courtroom by wheelbarrow (see cut). At stake was the ownership of 495 acres of Montgomery County oil land estimated...
...session was also the longest on record, 186 days. Little constructive legislation was passed, but more money was appropriated than ever before-$250,000,000. The public and the press were disgusted. So was Charles Martin Hay of St. Louis, a big, easygoing, full-time lawyer and part-time reformer...
...must to all streaks, an end came at last to Joe Di Maggio's batting spree. In a night game in Cleveland's vast Municipal Stadium, just two months and two days after starting the longest batting streak in the history of major-league baseball, Joe went hitless...
...high time somebody began to talk on the subject. George Marshall and the Army knew it would have to be done sooner or later. The National Guard outfits longest in service are due to go home on Sept. 15. The first of the draft recruits will begin to dribble back home two months later. And under present law, the Army could make no move outside the hemisphere without Congress' say-so, thus advertising its intention to a foe who moves with lightning speed and without warning. This week's occupation of Iceland was a move the Army could...