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...golf course, one of the world's finest. Last week, as they watched, a squad of black policemen trundled on to the fairway an odd-looking contraption of ropes and parallel bars. It was the Crown Colony's portable gallows, an 18th century-style instrument used to dispatch Mau Mau terrorists near the scene of their crimes...
...resemblance to the late Justice Holmes is purely coincidental," writes D. R. Fitzpatrick, political cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in decribing his nomination for the Harvard presidency. He adds that the drawing is not supposed to resemble former football great W. Barry Wood '32, now a professor at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis...
...winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Fitzpatrick has been drawing for the Post-Dispatch since 1913. His cartoons have also appeared in Coller's. This is the second of a series on the next chief executive of the University. Later drawings will be by Wait Kelly, creator of Pogo, the New York Times' drama cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, and the New Yorker's R. Thyler, illustrator of "Fractured French...
Goldberg's cartoon is the first of this scientific series. Later participants will include Al Capp, and D. R. Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...fortnight the Pennsylvania supreme court reached the same conclusion on a double indemnity policy of the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Co. The Korean conflict, said the Pennsylvania court, is not a war, since "there was not, nor ever has been, any declaration of war by Congress, but merely a dispatch to Korea, by presidential order, of military, naval and air forces of the United States...