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...just routine," said St. Louis Police Lieut. Louis Shoulders a month ago as he modestly shrugged off the praise heaped on him for his arrest of Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady, the kidnapers and killers of little Bobby Greenlease (TIME, Oct. 19). But FBI agents began to suspect that something had gone wrong with routine as they searched for some $300,000 still unrecovered of the $600,000 Greenlease ransom...
...this week, Presbyterian Life renews an old charge against Roman Catholics, to wit, attempted grand larceny of the word Catholic. In an article for Presbyterians titled You Are a Catholic, the Rev. Paul Austin Wolfe writes: "There has been persistent propaganda to apply the word Catholic to the Roman Church alone. On our town and city streets you will often find a sign saying 'The Catholic Church-Masses 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.' It is a sign put up by the Roman Church. In the armed forces chaplains are classified as Protestants, Catholics and Jews...
...Spanish [Oct. 5]. They speak Catalan, which is . . . one of the eight Romance languages, like Italian or French. Andorra belongs to the Catalan area and both the French and Spanish neighbors of that little country have the Catalan language for their mother tongue. GEORGE C. ENGERRAND University of Texas Austin...
...pink-and-white Crystal Ballroom of the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas last week, a scholarly man in rimless glasses presided methodically over a meeting of one of the most powerful regulatory bodies in the world. He was Ernest O. (for Othmer) Thompson, 61, chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, which decides, in effect, how much oil the U.S. shall produce. After a 16-minute meeting, Thompson announced to his audience of 120 oil company lawyers: Texas wells will be allowed only 17 producing days during November...
...Rather Be In Jail." Around Pleasanton, Kans. (pop. 1,200), Hall's father was regarded as a fine lawyer but a hard man who once exacted as his fee in a homicide case his acquitted client's whole 600-acre farm. Carl Austin Hall had a mentally deficient older brother who died at five in a mental institution, sent there because "the folks didn't want Carl brought up around him." But as a boy, Carl himself was always in trouble, always trying to cheat someone, always bragging about how he would one day make big money...