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As Laborite Home Secretary at the time, Chuter Ede had refused to save Evans' life. Convinced later of his mistake, Chuter Ede made a moving confession of error to the House; the Evans case did more than anything else to agitate debate. Sir Ernest Cowers, during the four years...
In No Time for Fear (Harper; $3.50), he reports that he found what he was looking for. Among Bushmen and Basutos, Hottentots and Masai, from 95% to 98% go through childbirth like his own prize patients, with no untoward pain. Notable exceptions are women who have committed adultery: they often...
As a kindly yet none too religious monk, Fernandel attempts to save a group of five travellers from death at the hands of an inn-keeper who finds that ends meet only when he robs and kills his guests. In the process, Fernandel must make some very difficult decisions: whether...
This kind of story-telling is a touchy business. Though some of the early psychology is somewhat obscure, the evolving, tortuous effects upon the Prisoner, played by Alec Guinness, are uncommonly convincing. Probing into his subject's mind, which he must capture, the Interrogator is cooly restrained. At last he...
The duel begins. The interrogator goes over the cardinal's past with a mind magnetized to attract every particle of experience that carries a negative charge. "I am proud," the cardinal smilingly confesses. "All my life [I have] shirked nothing, ducked nothing, overcome everything." All day no rest, all...