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Sixteen solemn U.S. citizens filed into the jury box in a big walnut-paneled and marble courtroom in Manhattan last week, rose in their three-tiered box as Federal Judge Harold Medina made his entrance. The black-robed Court seated himself in his high-backed chair, looked out over the top of his desk and nodded to U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey. The trial of eleven Communist leaders, charged with conniving as Communists to overthrow the Government by violence, had finally got down to business...
Roving Reporter Walter Davenport had never felt comfortable in the editor's chair at Collier's. Since he took over the job (TIME, July 22, 1946), "Davvy" hadn't written a line for the magazine. Last week Editor Davenport eased himself out of the chair and got ready to hit the road again as Collier's chief correspondent. In his place as the new editor stepped ex-Marine Captain Louis Ruppel, 45, veteran of Kwajalein and the Chicago newspaper wars...
Joseph Goldstein is an elderly New York lawyer and ex-city magistrate who likes to tilt at educational windmills-and sometimes bowls them over. In 1940 he helped unseat Bertrand Russell from a teaching chair at the College of the City of New York on the grounds that Russell's writings were "lecherous, salacious . . . lustful." Last week Goldstein took off on another joust: unless two books which he considered "a menace" were banned from classrooms and public-school libraries within five days, he threatened to sue the Board of Education. The two books were Oliver Twist (the British film...
...Boylston Prizes were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston, in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory. The competition is ordinarily handled by the Boylston Professor, but that chair has been vacant since the death of Theodore Spencer...
...were drowsing in their living room when a chair caught fire, Townsend dragged the half-sleeping Parkman into their bedroom and was burned when he returned to the living room...