Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zillie protested that his only crime was his search for "peace," while the Labor Party was edging ever rightward toward Churchill's own "war policy." No Communist cardholder, Zillie has persistently buzzed along with the Moscow line. Last year, on the eve of the Italian elections, he and 21 other Labor left-wingers sent a letter of support to Communist Stooge Pietro Nenni. Last month, in Paris, Zillie denounced U.S.-British policy at the Communist-inspired "Peace Congress" (TIME...
Pert, pince-nezed Dorothy Leigh Sayers, 56, is best known to readers in the U.S. and Britain as a crack writer of whodunits (Busman's Honeymoon, Murder Must Advertise, etc.). But what really interests Anglican Sayers is religion. Two years ago she announced: "I have given up writing crime stories. Instead, I have engaged in a four-year task of translating Dante's Divine Comedy...
...technology can lick the Soviet jammers. In this sort of warfare the offensive generally has the advantage. It is almost impossible to drive all unauthorized words out of a nation's air. During World War II, the Nazis used massive jamming equipment and also made it a capital crime to listen to Allied broadcasts. But the news still got through...
...matter what his courses-on mortgages, notes and bills, evidence or crime-he gave them all with the same intensity. Phi Beta Kappas have flunked them and law-review editors have gotten Ds. Once he gave such a stiff examination that 31 out of his 35 students failed it. Later, the students gave him a dinner and presented him with a medal. On it was etched the motto of Verdun: Ils ne passeront pas (They shall not pass...
...Feodor Dostoevsky, then 51 and already famous as the author of Crime and Punishment, decided to become a newspaperman again. He had tried it before, without much success. In fact, journalism was a bad choice for a man who needed all the elbow room of the Russian novel for self-expression. But Dostoevsky felt full of miscellaneous ideas and Messianic urges, and besides, he needed the money. When the aristocratic and crotchety Prince Meshchersky offered him a job as editor of The Citizen (salary: 250 rubles a month), Dostoevsky accepted...