Word: cyrillic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free to state our opinions in any way we like," said Justice Cyril Salmon, "diffidently, decorously, politely and discreetly, or pungently, provocatively, rudely and even brutally. We may not tell a defamatory lie about anyone." With that charge, the jury in a London court last week retired to consider the libel suit of Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace against the London Daily Mirror and its columnist "Cassandra," William Connor (TIME, June 22). Three hours and 22 minutes later, the jurors were back with their verdict, eleven of them wearing the traditional stolid stare. But the twelfth -Mrs. Jean Friend, a grey...
...trial recessed for the weekend, Justice Cyril Salmon dismissed the jurors with a warning not to watch Liberace's Sunday night TV show because it might prejudice them. After the show they had watched all week, a night off probably was a welcome relief...
...killed Sir Harry Oakes? Like Sir Harry himself, the issue had been dead for 16 years, and Nassau's nice people never talked about it. But last week Cyril Stevenson, an irreverent minority member of Nassau's House of Assembly, loudly claimed that he knew who did Sir Harry in. Stevenson did not identify the culprit, Sir Harry's murderer stayed doggo, and the whole effect was rather like spilling the canape tray at a Government House garden party...
Dark-skinned Cyril Stevenson. 45, editor of the weekly Nassau Herald, has never wasted any love on the potent clique of financiers and real-estate barons known as the "Bay Street Pirates" who control the Assembly. As he told it last week. Sir Harry's killer was one of the Bay Street boys, and Stevenson had the evidence to back it. Actually, his evidence is nothing more than a list of unanswered questions that have been puzzling Raymond Schindler, 77, U.S. private detective, ever since...
...Pleasure of His Company. An overage playboy, Cyril Ritchard, decides that his daughter and her fiance do not qualify for a marriage of true minds, and he promptly supplies the impediments...