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...This Dark Stain." For almost seven straight hours last week, a packed House of Commons debated the subject. There were moments of personal drama: a speech by a young Tory confessing how he himself had once been tempted to kill, and had restrained himself only by the thought of the gallows; a description of the horror of a hanging by an old member from Glasgow...
...most eloquent of the abolitionists was yellow-haired Bevanite Sydney Silverman, whose sarcastic, extreme left-wing speeches usually irritate the House; in this debate he heard a rare cheer as he urged "free men, free women, free Members of Parliament in a free society to wipe this dark stain from our statute books...
...Have we fallen so low?" cried the Paris-Presse. "After the insults and tomatoes that greeted Guy Mollet in Algeria, nothing more was needed to stain the regime than a brawl between the representatives of the people...
Suffering from an acute sense of insecurity and flickering suspicions, Ann Woodward sometimes created volcanic public scenes with her husband. In El Morocco one night, she scratched Bill Woodward's face until it bled, after he pulled out a handkerchief with a lipstick stain on it. At the Marquis de Cuevas' ball in Biarritz two years ago (TIME. Sept. 14, 1953), Ann, dressed as a red devil, reacted violently when she saw her husband dancing with Carmen Sainte, the beautiful Chilean-born wife of a big French rope-and-hemp man. During the dance, Mme. Sainte wrapped...
With a Meat Cleaver. Neighbors come and stain the good earth with their quirks and vices. The drunken O'Dowd chases his chattering wife with a meat cleaver...