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In some of this Alice in Wonderland atmosphere, Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley last week levied $175,000 in fines on the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America and 24 co-defendants for violating the antitrust laws (TIME, Sept. 30). But as he pronounced sentence, Judge Lindley made a...
James Norman Hall, Tahiti-dwelling author (with Charles Nordhoff) of the Bounty series, discomfited many a book critic with a wicked confession: Fern Gravel, a child poetess whose volume, Oh, Millersville!, made a merry little noise in literary circles six years ago, existed only in Hall's brain. Deadpanned...
Millersville, oh, Millersville! That is my home and I love it, but still I wish that once in a while I could go To cities like Omaha and St. Joe. Hoixer Hall maintained that he was moved to confession by "twinges of conscience." He deserved more twinges for quoting, to...
To one-third of Quebec's 3½ million, missing the daily 7 p.m. episode of Un Homme would have been as unthinkable as substituting English for French. Listeners hissed Miser Seraphim Poudrier as he added to his $70,000 hoard and forgot to mention his avarice at confession...
A U.S. military commission on Guam last week read into the record a Japanese Army major's confession of cannibalism. Unlike rumored instances elsewhere, this was no story of starving Japanese eating their own or enemy dead in an effort to survive. It was ritual cannibalism practiced on the...