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Life at the Executive Mansion is bustling and informal. While the governor is running for President, everyone else is running for Thurmond. To get him to engagements, State Police Sergeant Huss Fennell drives him around at 80 m.p.h...
...July 30, 1419, followers of John Huss inarched through the streets of Prague. Stones were thrown at the Hussites from the windows of the town hall. The incensed populace stormed into the hall, threw the burgomaster and several councilors from the windows into the streets where they were immediately killed by the crowd. On May 23, 1618, two royal councilors, Czech Catholics, and the secretary of the royal council, were thrown from the windows of the council room of the Hradcany into the moat 50 feet below. Not one of the three was killed by the fall. This defenestration...
...first Police Day speaker had barely begun when an unexpected incident occurred. From the gauntly Gothic cathedral, past the huge monument of John Huss at the stake, rolled organ music. Policemen soon silenced the inappropriate sound, and the celebration continued. But throughout the world, people with an ear for the rhythm of history knew that what happened in Prague last week had happened before and would, quite possibly, be repeated in capital after capital...
...Bertrand Russell to teach at the College of the City of New York (TIME, April 8, 1940) have finally boiled over. This week they cut loose in an angry book, The Bertrand Russell Case (Viking; $2.50). Their flattering finding: the Russell case ranks with the persecutions of Socrates, John Huss and Joan of Arc, as one of history's most infamous episodes...
Westward across the German border in staff cars rolled Louis Lochner of Associated Press, Frederick Oechsner of United Press, Pierre J. Huss of Hearst's International News Service, over roads packed with advancing Nazi columns...