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...qualified men can be drawn up, and the executive or the legislature required to choose from that list. After being appointed, judges would run for election only against their records on the bench, i.e., no other candidates would appear on the ballots, which would be simply phrased: "Shall Judge Blank be retained in office?" This system has been recommended by the American Bar Association, but so far almost all the states have ignored...
Died. Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, 65, prolific writer of magazine stories and some 20 mystery novels (Lady Killer, The Innocent Mrs. Duff, The Blank Wall}, known to whodunit fans as one of the earliest (since 1929) and most skillful practitioners of the novel of psychological suspense; after long illness; in The Bronx...
...that many a viewer suspected trickery. One afternoon a fur-coated lady exclaimed: "I can't believe that this child has produced all these paintings without someone else's guidance." A messenger was sent to fetch a set of brushes, a dozen tubes of paint and a blank canvas. While the fascinated gallerygoers watched, young Thierry went to work, within two hours completed another exquisite still life...
...Malskat described how he had blithely gone about his work, perched on top of a 90-ft. scaffold inside the church. Only scattered patches of the original paint remained, said Malskat, and "even that turned to dust when I blew on it." Malskat decided to fill in the blank walls with pictures of historical figures, schoolmates and local laborers, modeled figures of the Virgin based on photographs of his sister and former German Movie Queen Hansi Knoteck...
...Land. In Cambridge, Ill., Farmer M. C. Samuelson complained to the Henry County state's attorney that after he left a signed blank check with his order for a pound of butter, Milkman Robert Fowler picked up the check, blithely made it out to himself...