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Franz von Papen, 69, Hitler's super-sleek diplomat, who has served two years of an eight-year rap as a major Nazi offender, was really only a second-class Nazi, a German appeals court decided. A fine of 30,000 marks ($9,000) still stood, and he got a solemn warning not to take part in any activities that might mold public opinion. Then the court ordered the return of his confiscated property and his release from prison...
When Queen Mary heard that the specialists were advising another physician because of her son's illness (TIME, Dec. 6) it was only natural that she, like Victoria, should rap the ground with her walking stick and back her protege...
...someone must take the rap, Eisenhower is willing: "[My] plan gave the German opportunity to launch his attack against a weak portion of our lines. If giving him that chance is to be condemned by historians, their condemnation should be directed at me alone...
...minute civil ceremony and were married again in a 30-minute formal Greek Orthodox service-in which the bridal couple wore wreaths of mother-of-pearl orange blossoms (traditional in the Greek Orthodox service). There was one terrible moment when Francis was threatened with a perjury rap (he had picked up the wedding license in August and had listed himself as single). To cap everything, the newlyweds missed their scheduled flight to Rio. The nation's press had not been so chattery and dewy-eyed over a romance since the Rockefeller-Cinderella* story last February...
...110th time this year, police haled David Douglas Davenport into court, charged him, as usual, with illegally selling liquor in Washington's Union Station, saw him, as usual, prepare to beat the rap. Davenport keeps his liquor in station lockers, sells the key-not the liquor-to his customers. To avoid charges of loitering, he always carries a ticket to Baltimore in his pocket...