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...Home Guardsman Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested...
...magistrates upheld the 260-year-old decision of Rex v. Broom and freed Foulds, who was carried from the court by cheering crowds...
...orchestra swings into Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, the ballet on the screen turns into flowers, fairies, fish, falling leaves, mushrooms. Mickey Mouse appears in the title role of Paul Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, with silent gusto steals the bearded sorcerer's magic cap. commands the broom to fetch water, forgets how to stop it, nearly drowns in the deluge that follows. To Igor Stravinsky's rip-roaring Rite of Spring, a primeval world, complete with dinosaurs, bubbles up, parades by, dies down. To Mussorgsky's spooky Night on Bald Mountain, hobgoblins and beldams ride...
...leaned on his brush and gazed reflectively into his cart. "Take me," he said. "I can handle horses and donkeys, but I don't like elephants. A new broom always sweeps clean, and what this country needs is a fore-and-aft rigged feed-bag that will get the horses going as well as coming...
...been fossil-fascinated since childhood. The shale crops out near a wooded, winding road popular with Mount Holyoke College girls and their swains. For six years the brothers kept their secret, then bought two acres from a utility company which owned them. They got to work with broom, sledge and chisel, circulated neat little advertising folders. By last week, nearing the end of their second "season,'' they had removed nearly 2,000 footprints. They would not say how many had been sold, but pronounced business "satisfactory...