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...reason why people like my books," she says, "is that I write of life as I want it to be." Since Mrs. Norris follows the dictates of her Church, the heroines in her stories can never get divorces, never practice birth control. As a result of this strict plot limitation, only the death of any who block her heroine's way can lead to a happy ending. And death stalks the pages of Mrs. Norris' novels as grimly and certainly as in a Greek tragedy. Two have to die in Woman in Love. First Tamara's seducer...
...Choukas learned it was better to drink Mount Athos wine than Mount Athos water, which brings on an abdominal bloat. Medical care on the holy mountain turned out to consist mainly of the use of relics and rat oil.* Eleven of the Athonite monasteries are cenobitic, holding to the strict monastic ideals of early Christendom. The rest are idiorrhythmic-liberal, individualistic and permitting their inmates to own property during their lifetime. All were once wealthy and politically powerful, drawing revenue throughout the Balkans and from Russia which furnished many a neophyte monk. Still autonomous under the Greek Republic, the monasteries...
...mountains of information which a literal reading of the Securities Act seemed to require, the SEC's new regulations apply only to established corporations or their successors. Fresh promotions, which have never been burdened by the law because they have no corporate history, will continue to use the strict old form. But no longer is it necessary for an old-line company to describe in painful detail every last trivial law suit, every last patent, every last plant built and abandoned years...
Possessors of the document were warned not to reveal the booklet's contents "to any newspaper, as all news of this trial has been suppressed by order of court." There followed in strict legal form the record of a case in which one John Doe, tramp, was tried for the "kidnap and murder" of a 20-month-old child named Charles A. Limberg Jr. on the night of March 1, 1932 near Hoaxwell, N. J. Attorney for the defense convinced a jury that the child had wandered out of his house of his own accord, could have died...
Impervious to politics, ballyhoo, everything except strict justice, is the jurist before whom Bruno Hauptmann will go on trial for his life. He is Supreme Court Justice Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, affectionately called "Uncle Tom" by his cronies in Flemington, where he has presided at the sitting of the Hunterdon County Court for years...