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...willed. Indicted on a charge of murder, he rose last week in superior court to make his plea. "What say you?" the clerk asked him. He said clearly: "Not guilty." Free on $25,000 bail, barred temporarily from practicing, wan and tired, he walked out of court to await his trial...
These perseverent jalopy-lovers are refusing to put their vehicles into hibernation for the winter and to await the usual rash of outworn rattlotraps which breaks out every spring in Cambridge...
...Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...
...Koch, though freed by the Americans, remained a free woman only for a few minutes. While she was still talking to newsmen, German police rearrested her and shipped her off to Aichach Prison, 25 miles away, to await a new war crimes trial before a German court. By the time she got to Aichach, she had recovered her good humor, gladly posed for another battery of photographers...
...news of the year. A U.S. correspondent passed him a note: "President Truman has just announced that Russia has the atom bomb. Amen." Trygve Lie, at Romulo's side, scribbled a quick reply: "If true, it makes the U.N. all the more indispensable." Then he sat back to await Andrei Vishinsky's scheduled address...