Word: raping
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...Martinsville Seven were seven Negroes who had confessed to raping the wife of a Martinsville, Va. store manager just two years ago. They had been duly tried and convicted, their cases had twice been carried to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to review them. Even the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which provided legal counsel for the prisoners' appeal, did not seriously question their guilt; it argued that they were denied equal treatment under the 14th Amendment, pointing out that since 1908, Virginia had executed 45 Negroes for rape, but no white...
...chance to explore the fascinating vistas he has glimpsed in old copies of LIFE and Vanity Fair. And the new Prospero has his Caliban, the "freckled whelp" of the island witch, a half-breed named Mario, for whom freedom would mean a chance to murder his master and rape the master's daughter...
...reopen on its old affluent basis: taxes had reduced Christie's purse, and austerity made the whole idea out of the question. Bing hit on a solution: if Glyndebourne could no longer afford large productions, it could afford small ones. Young British Composer Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (TIME, June 9, 1947), which requires next to no scenery, only a handful of singers and an orchestra of twelve, reopened Glyndebourne...
Henry Fielding's "The Justice Caught in His Own Trap, or Rape Upon Rape" will be the Winthrop production on Thursday and is directed by Rufus A. Blanchard, teaching fellow in English...
...Wisconsin attorney general ruled that anyone who commits statutory rape in a parked automobile shall have his driver's license revoked...