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...obstacles. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in 1944 that the privilege against self-incrimination applies only to verbal questions, not to compulsory physical or mental examinations. But things are changing fast. In Rochin v. California (1952), for example, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction of an alleged drug addict because the evidence against him was obtained by forced stomach pumping. It is anomalous, wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter, "to hold that to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach...
Died. Sir Albert Edward Richardson, 83, British architect, onetime (1955-57) president of the Royal Academy of Arts, an 18th century addict who considered modern buildings "cellular facades cloaked with vitreous indifference," believed that "nothing should be streamlined except water closets," himself eschewed electricity and telephones, entertained in wig and knee breeches and paid calls on special occasions reclining regally in a sedan chair; of heart disease, in Ampthill, Bedfordshire...
...hours Tho castigated the performance of the very newspapers to which his government had pledged full freedom. He fumed at what he called their unconquerable tendency to print lies and "sensationalism." His criticism even extended to the character of some of the editors. One, he suggested, was an opium addict; another was playing footsie with the Communists. If the country's press did not mend its ways, concluded Tho, "the government would have to take the necessary measures...
Auden's "The Opera Addict" amusingly probes the nature of opera. "The ideal operatic hero and heroine fall in love with the most unsuitable person they can find...they keep appearing at the most embarrassing and improbable times and places possible; they persistently and shamelessly make scenes in public...
Wrong Baby. Various shows like The Great Adventure and The Fugitive are fighting for the services of Negro stars like Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Diahann Carroll. Perry Mason had eight Negroes on one recent show. The Nurses had eight that same night-one addict, two extras, and five R.N.s. The New Phil Silvers Show has a regular Negro...