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Professor Cohen teaches Phil. 139 and holds forth with Nietzsche, Mill, and Santayana in Emerson F. The Nietzschean spirit seems to haunt the the rest of the building at this hour. For the up-and-coming Raskolnikov Dr. Wheeler in Soc. Rel. 184 (Emerson A) carefully examines where such greats as Willy Sutton and Mack the Knife slipped up. As insurance, "cops and robbers" finishes up with a study on the ins and outs of prisons...
...gold-and-blue suite at the just-opened Ritz Hotel. "I am out of politics," Batista told the few newsmen admitted to his rooms. "Cubans deserve their own decisions. They chose not to have me as President." He planned to sail in a few days for Madeira, a haunt for retired Britons. 400 miles west of the Moroccan coast, which has no airstrip, and is rarely visited by tourists...
...Dublin midnight in Groome's Hotel, a haunt of actors and other free souls, the grog flowed as from a well. Then Cinemale Robert Mitchum, in Ireland to star in an Irish Republican Army epic titled A Terrible Beauty, walked in. The facts were hard to come by, but burly (220 Ibs.) Bob Mitchum hazily allowed that he had been approached by an insistent autograph hound. Heavy-lidded ex-Truck Driver Mitchum scrawled a mild obscenity and got socked squarely in the eye for his unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum...
...blast, World War II might have ended within a few days. As it was, Hitler suffered only a burst eardrum and a bruised arm, was well enough to meet Mussolini at the station that very afternoon. But though the plot of July 20 failed, it later began to haunt the Germans. Were the plotters traitors or heroes? Last week West Germany showed it had finally, officially, made up its mind...
...mountaintop villa from which, records Suetonius, "condemned persons, after long and exquisite tortures, used to be hurled, on his orders and in his presence, into the sea." The other was British Author Norman Douglas, whose bestselling South Wind (1917) painted a thinly disguised picture of Capri as a haunt of elegant wickedness. Douglas himself was asked to leave Capri by the police when he tried to translate some of his fancies into reality; nonetheless, he established the island in the world's mind as the nirvana of the rich and jaded...