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"Who has ever heard tell, in times past, that powerful princes . . . that nobles, men and women, have bent their proud and haughty necks to the harness of carts, and that, like beasts of burden, they have dragged to the abode of Christ these wagons? . . . Often a thousand persons are attached...
The Grand Tour (by Elmer Rice) is like an off night at the movies. The first half is a tame travelogue about a school-marm's trip to Europe. The second half is nickelodeon stuff about the banker she falls in love with and his confession of embezzling. Not...
Died. Joseph ("Shoeless Joe") Jackson, 63, one of baseball's greatest hitters (a lifetime average of .356 in 1,330 games), who was kicked out of organized baseball after he and seven Chicago White Sox teammates admitted they took bribes to throw the 1919 Series to the Cincinnati Reds...
The professor was a wonderful burglar, but he and Francine got to fighting over such issues as who would pay the $150-3-month rent on their off-campus love nest. She spitefully threatened to expose his criminal career. Last July she even browbeat him into signing a confession. He...
Last week Francine called the police station, complained that the doctor had been punching her around, and gave the go-ahead signal. The bluecoats opened the confession, stared at it with gaping jaws, and then took off after the doc like Keystone Cops after a pie-thrower.