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...angry editorial, the nearby Hudson Dispatch declared that a "friendless, helpless stranger" had been jailed for a very poor reason: withholding her identity. Manhattan papers took up the cry. Attorney James A. Major of the American Civil Liberties Union demanded that she be given a new trial. Offers of money, clothes and jobs poured in. The clamor got too loud for the sensitive ears of judge and prosecutor...
Kathleen Winsor's bawdy Restoration heroine finally got back to her old tramping grounds-and was promptly put to work selling papers. Last week, in a frontpage box, Lord Rothermere's London Sunday Dispatch announced that it would share with its 1,600,000 readers an authorized, serialized version of Forever Amber...
Miss Winsor's brummagem novel, glowed the Dispatch, is "the most famous book of modern times. ... It has been banned in more countries and in more places than any other novel ever published...
Flickering light was shed on the problem of the meat shortage's effect on American students last night with the arrival of a dispatch from Yale, a university in New Haven, Conn...
According to Dining Hall Director A. Margaret Bowers, quoted in the dispatch, Yale men have taken to a new and particularly troublesome kind of table-hopping. After reading in advance menus posted in the ten colleges, the Hall of Graduate Studies, and even the Divinity School, students wan and emaciated from meagre rations of sundry things on toast are able to augment their diets by guest appearances at eating places other than their own. By downing three dinners in as many halls, they absorb the equivalent of a normal, pre-meat-shortage meal...