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...Sixteen solemn U.S. citizens filed into the jury box in a big walnut-paneled and marble courtroom in Manhattan last week, rose in their three-tiered box as Federal Judge Harold Medina made his entrance. The black-robed Court seated himself in his high-backed chair, looked out over the top of his desk and nodded to U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey. The trial of eleven Communist leaders, charged with conniving as Communists to overthrow the Government by violence, had finally got down to business...
...SIXTEEN SELF SKETCHES (207 pp.)-Bernard Shaw-Dodd, Mead...
...with the distributors. They say that the cancelled films were ones that were unobtainable to the Theater. The Theater fears a considerable loss of prestige when a non-profit organization of students pops up with a film they had been forced to tell their customers they could not get. Sixteen millimeter exhibitors are supposed to get films that are no longer desired by regular local theaters, and the U.T. considers these films still profitable and feels it might want to run some of them in the future without appearing as second run to the Liberal Union...
Barely airborne, it lurched. Its right wingtip dropped, scraped the runway. The plane veered crazily, crashed through a hangar with a shattering roar, and burst into flame. Inside its crumpled fuselage, students (some of whose safety belts snapped) crawled dazedly amid bright fire, or lay still. Sixteen managed to tumble out into the arms of hangar crewmen...
...unprecedented dual yearbook was created by amalgamation of the '47 and '48 staffs in March 1947, since the two classes were almost unrecognizably intermingled during the war years. Sixteen hundred maroon-and-buff covered copies will be mailed as soon as the books are bound, Coombs said...