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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anyone who has read Gadfly cannot fail to see the superb butchery done to it in Mr. Ashcraft's review. Perhaps Mr. Ashcraft alone is blind to his literary crime, having somehow forgotten to read Gadfly himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STINGER STUNG | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

Legal Advice. In Chicago, after Mrs. Hattie Payne testified that her husband gave her 1,600 beatings and almost 800 black eyes during their 16 years of marriage, Judge Alan Ashcraft commented: "You would have been better off marrying a prizefighter, because you could have saved him the cost of a sparring partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

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