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...paid for their sins with shaven skulls and imprisonment, while their lovers were broken on the wheel, flayed alive, castrated and decapitated. His intriguing daughter Isabella was unhappily married to Edward II of England, a king who would rather drape his arm with "suspect familiarity" around a young workman than em brace his queen. Courtiers, prelates, Lom bard bankers and the rising burghers scrabbled greedily for power...
...press, usually confined to turgid polemics, devoted column after column to full and sensational reports by 80 reporters covering the trial ("It is refreshing to read again about ordinary human frailties," said one Pole). Some spectators paid as much as 2,000 zlotys (three months' pay for a workman) for a black-market ticket to get into the packed courtroom. Mazurkiewicz, the center of all the attention, is a 48-year-old ex-army officer who had a reputation in Cracow as an elegant, free-spending man about town with good connections. His present fame, however, was centered...
Although it was the roof workman who caused the fire, the blaze was first reported by Heaman himself...
Headquarters Casualty. In Sydney, Australia, Marjorie O'Brien demanded ?8 16s, ($20) weekly workman's compensation, charged that she had suffered nervous tension, emotional strain, "aggravation" of high blood pressure while working as a secretary for the Workmen's Compensation Commission...
...Workman's Compensation. In Birmingham, after being arrested for drunken pedaling of his three-wheeled ice-cream cart. Thomas Bogan, 53, was "grounded" for 60 days by Recorder's Court Judge Oliver Hall, but charged only one-fourth of the usual fine because he was "generating his own power...