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...jury of farmers and stockmen listened to about 400 witnesses, more than 100 depositions (one of which took four days to read). Jury fees ($21 a week) totaled more than $11,000. In the course of the trial the court bailiff died; one juror became a father ; two became grandfathers...
...about to expire and they did well to get everything forehandedly settled. Last week. Buckingham Palace officially announced that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint as Governor General of Canada Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, Knight of the Garter, Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael & St. George, Governor of Windsor Castle and Personal Aide de Camp to George VI since his accession...
Among the witnesses of this brief ceremony was His Catholic Highness the Archduke Otto, pretender to the Habsburg thrones, Bailiff of the Catholic Order of the Knights of Malta. Otto sat near the Archbishop in the sanctuary, took third place (i.e., preceding the Archbishop and the Cardinal) when the procession left the Cathedral...
Seven-year-old Scophony is the lusty baby of British television. Guided by squat, bespectacled Russian-refugee Sagall, it weathered five years of bailiff dodging, grew from a room and a half in Soho to $1,050,000 capitalization, achieved financial association with Odeon. Competitor in large-screen television is Baird Television Ltd. partly owned by Gaumont-British Picture Corp., Ltd. They report several orders for theatre television screens, do not specify which theatres, might offer BBC loans of Gaumont-British stars in exchange for programs...
...When professional thieves are arrested, they rely first on the police ("in hard times a dollar or two or even a drink may be enough"). More difficult arrangements are handled by a fixer who works through the complaining witness, the prosecutor (by trading cases), the bailiff (who forges vacating orders), or the judge. So efficient are fixers that Denver's Ed Blonger for many years kept all his clients out of jail. Chicago's celebrated pickpocket, Eddie Jackson, was arrested "thousands of times," convicted only four times, twice because of factional fights between his political friends...