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...defense table, William Remington put down the book he had been reading -Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought. In the jury box, the foreman, Hotel Clerk David L. Jones, rose to his feet. "We find the defendant guilty as charged," he said in a husky voice. Remington closed his book, shut his eyes, and got to his feet with an effort. Two U.S. marshals stepped to his side. Federal Judge Gregory F. Noonan told the jury: "I believe the verdict you have arrived at is a fair...
...well son of a cattleman, Walker cheats on his wife (Joanne Dru) and relies on his foster brother, Ranch Foreman Burt Lancaster, to rescue him from such scrapes as getting a neighboring girl into trouble. Thinking Lancaster the culprit, the girl's vengeful brothers go gunning for him. Walker helps them on the sly so he can eliminate Lancaster as an obstacle to his schemes for embezzling the old man's cattle...
...Hopalong Cassidy's Saving Rodeo. For a minimum deposit of $2, Hoppy's worshipers got a "tenderfoot" badge and a plastic bank shaped to look like their hero. As their savings grow, so will their rank-from "wrangler" (a $10 account) to "Bar 20 Foreman" ($500). For all this, the bank paid Cassidy a set fee: 50? per new account plus $1 for the thrift kit. In four days the Citizens' National, Georgia's largest bank, reported more than 1,000 new savings accounts, prepared to expand the club to its 14 branches in other cities...
...taking up to ten days for the dying to get themselves buried," complained one Liverpool undertaker. Said a cemetery foreman: "We've got carbide flares rigged up so my men can see to work at night." Druggists were running short of medicine bottles. A tenth of Plymouth's overworked doctors were down with flu themselves...
...There is a man on duty ready to measure the depth at all times," said Daniel Gow, foreman of the clearance team. "Twelve to 14 men are called out to start work immediately, joined by some 50 more in the daytime. If things really get bad, we put every man in the department to work...