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More effective dissent to the Supreme Court's action was written by Irving Dilliard, 45, longtime student of the Supreme Court's procedures and editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial page (TIME, July 4). In a series of 15 doggedly detailed editorials, he denounced the "star chamber proceedings" in the case of Knauff v. the U.S. as a denial of her rights and a threat to the civil liberties of U.S. citizens as well. The P-D backed up his blasts with Fitzpatrick cartoons, news stories and full-page ads in the Washington Post and Star...
From Yucatan came news that a large aluminum disc had been seen whizzing by at an altitude of a thousand feet. The most magnificent dispatch came from the northern state of Zacatecas: a farmer had found a large kite-shaped object in the mountains, with two passengers, each just under two feet tall. The Department of National Defense solemnly denied the existence of the midget visitors...
Leafing through the St. Paul Dispatch last fortnight, Jimmy Lewis, 14, caught his breath as he came upon two rogues'-gallery photographs of a tough-looking customer. The story with the pictures, one of a series' on public enemies by Hearst's International News Service, identified the man as William Raymond Nesbit, 50, Iowa jewel thief, murderer-by-dynamite and escaped convict. Jimmy thought the face was familiar; it looked like "Ray," a man who was living in a cave in a park not ten minutes from St. Paul's downtown...
...answered their frenzied telephone summons. Two cops took their stand outside the cave entrance and called to Ray to come out with his hands up. He surrendered meekly, admitted he was Nesbit, sought by the FBI since 1946. In his pocket the cops found a clipping of the Dispatch story that had trapped...
Last week, tall, solemn Jimmy Lewis and his chief lieutenant, wisecracking little Jimmy Radeck, 13, flew to the capital at the expense of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch (combined circ. 207,784) to get a pat on the back from G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself...