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...TIME, Dec. 16, under the report of the trial of Lord de Clifford, you say, "Under the Magna Charta it is the right of every Briton to be tried by his peers-i. e. . . . a lord by the House of Lords." Why does TIME imply that this right originated in the Magna Charta? The right of a lord to be tried by his peers was just as much the law during the reign of William the Conqueror as during the reign of King John. This custom originated in the early Middle Ages and was the right of every vassal (lord...
...Broadway appeared four successful plays all by Playwright of the Year Clifford Odets...
...Chicago's Century of Progress a young chemical engineer who teaches at Yale went about inspecting the welter of exhibits purporting to show what Science had done for Mankind. What he saw did not impress Engineer Clifford Cook Furnas. The festoons of electric lights, he knew, burned with an efficiency of less than 2%. The television was blurry. The loudspeakers were squawky. There were sleek, fast automobiles which converted less than a tenth of their fuel into motive power. Display after display recounted the triumphs of medicine while a preventable outbreak of amebic dysentery in Chicago sickened 721 people...
Defending Lord de Clifford, Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett recalled that the defendant had admitted to police that he was driving on the wrong side or middle of the road, saying he had done so because the other car was approaching at tremendous speed and in his judgment that was the way to minimize or avoid an accident. "In the agony of the moment, just before the collision," cried Sir Henry, "he did as he thought best...
Paradise Lost (by Clifford Odets; Group Theatre, producer) is Opus No. 4 in the collected works of a young man who is currently the U. S. Drama's white-haired boy. With two one-acters (Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) and one full-length play (Awake and Sing!) behind him within a twelvemonth, with his ears ringing with more critical praise than many an older playwright has achieved in a full career, 29-year-old Clifford Odets undertook to explain to metropolitan critics just what his latest play was about. On the eve of Paradise Last...