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...record entitled him to talk "in the same fashion. Interior Minister W. S. Kent Hughes, 56, fought in Gallipoli and Palestine in World War I, was a Rhodes scholar and an Olympic hurdler between wars, and in World War II fought in Malaya as a staff officer of the 8th division. Captured at the same time as Downer, he also spent 3½ years in Japanese prison camps. Said Kent Hughes in a dramatic and emotional speech: "Only those who have passed along the purgatorial path of ill-treatment, murder, lashings, and every brutality you can think of ... who have...
...CRIMSON prides itself upon watertight argument in its editorial columns. Yet arguments used against the traditional freshman Smoker in February 8th's paper are untenable...
...strange film even by the standards of Japan (where it drew only enough business to meet its cost of $140,000), Rashomon opens in a ruined 8th century temple, where a woodcutter and a Buddhist priest, taking shelter from a lashing rain, ponder a bewildering crime that has shaken their faith in men. As they recount the crime to a cynical passerby, flashbacks picture the testimony at the trial and four differing re-enactments of the violent incident itself...
...required) by the 20th amendment to the Constitution. Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland observed that Jan. 3 was Thursday, a wasteful day, and suggested that the date be pushed forward to the following Monday, Jan. 7. House Speaker Sam Rayburn gently suggested another push to Tuesday, the 8th. His reason: the Monday meeting would require him to travel on Jan. 6, his 70th birthday...
...Aaron Wilson K.O.'s Elkins Brothers in 8th and final round of the semi-final...