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...Judge Takes the Stand," by Joseph N. Ullman; "The Nature of the Judicial Process," by Benjamin N. Cardozo; "Free Speech in the United States," by Zechariah Chafee; "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club," by Charles Dickens...
...dispatch, once-hostile British censors passed a flood of encomiums to the Partisans, to their commander, Marshal Josip Broz ("Tito"), and to a party of Partisan officers who had come to Egypt. One booster even spread the report that Marshal Broz's favorite books are War & Peace and Pickwick Papers...
Lieut. Hans Strehl, 23, and Lieut. Siegfried Schmidt, 25, both Nazi airmen, both prisoners of war at the Fort Henry internment camp outside Kingston, Ont., seem to have literal minds. Not long ago they apparently got a copy of Pickwick Papers from the camp library, and came across the passage in which Weller the elder suggested that the hero escape from his imprisonment in the Fleet with the help of a piano...
...Shanghai's plutocracy. It was not the work of a taipan but of brilliant, crotchety British Lawyer Ranald McDonald, an ornament of Shanghai's bar and bars. At the Council's April meeting he had shrilled a speech that might have been drafted either by Mr. Pickwick or an early Shanghai missionary...
...lives in and owns Bristol, Pa., for 40-odd years has symbolized in Pennsylvania the well-fed forces of conservatism. Mr. Grundy, 77, still rosy of cheek and twinkly of eye behind round gold-rimmed spectacles, with his round, white-fringed face, round little body, is a combination of Pickwick and Foxy Grandpa. Last week Mr. Grundy was resting in Florida, but with the full onset of spring he is expected back soon in the once-beautiful riverfront village which industrialism has made into an ugly mill town...