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...Communist general secretary of Britain's non-Communist coal miners' union is a twittery little Welshman named Arthur Horner. At 12 he was a wobbler (the boy who lathers customers' faces in barbershops); in his teens, he was a Baptist preacher, calling on the coalowners to repent of their "anti-working-class sins" before it was too late. In & out of jail, "Li'l Arthur" Horner worked wonders for the miners, and they loved him for it. Most of them thought he was simply daft when he announced, in 1947, that "if there were a possibility...
...late, Arthur Horner has been overworked and ill. His doctor, a die-hard Tory, ordered absolute rest; the coal miners' union generously offered to pay for a long spring vacation, his first in 15 years. Last week Li'l Arthur announced that he'd get well in a nice quiet rest home in the Soviet Union. This would "demonstrate my faith in Soviet medicine...
...even as primitive satire, the story is more tolerable than the usual musicomedy romance. There are some amusing burlesque ditties-Who Is the Bravest? and Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York. There are glittering Miles White costumes and gay Harry Horner sets. As Hazel, Helen Gallagher is an attractive, versatile and spirited malade imaginaire. And, with New York for a locale and a tour of it as part of the plot, Hazel Flagg at times achieves the welcome variety and topicality of a revue...
Among other outstanding competitors who didn't see much action last year, and upon whom the team is counting are Hans Vitzthum, who was out last year with a bad leg, Kris Lehmkuhl, who has had lots of experience, Henry Horner, who proved last year he could fill in at any position, and downhill man Noel Scullin...
More than four years after the murder of William Horner, an elderly Trenton junkman, the case of the "Trenton Six" (TIME, July 11, 1949) was still dragging through New Jersey courts. The six Negroes convicted of the crime got a new trial in February 1951, after the state supreme court decided that they had been denied their due rights under law (e.g., the jury was improperly charged). After a mistrial, four of the defendants were finally acquitted, two were sent to prison for life. Last week, the New Jersey supreme court ruled that the lower court had erred again, ordered...