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...when he left his home to go fishing with Brady. "Keep your mouth shut!" lawyers advised, and Pat Brady set his Irish jaw. Last week before the Commonwealth's High Court Brady's counsel cited a basic maxim of Anglo-Saxon law, argued: "There can be no inquest, much less a trial for murder, without a corpus delicti and one tattooed human arm disgorged by a shark is not a body...
...same time, according to custom, the Forum presented its "Annual Impertinence" this time called "The Coroner's Inquest" or "Who Killed Democracy...
Included on the panel to conduct the inquest were: Zechariah Chaffee, Jr., professor of law, Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy. Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro De Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, served as a witness at the inquest designated as "The Enemy of Fascism...
...panel including four Harvard professors will sit as a tribunal Thursday evening in a coronor's inquest to determine the murderer of democracy, alleged to be dead although unaware of it. The satire is the Ford Hall Forum's "annual impertinence" given at the banquet which closes its season. The chief guests will be President Conant and Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, whom the Forum terms "by practically unanimous consent, the noblest character in the public life of America...
...strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman. Not a mystery of Spilsbury calibre but England's robustious crime of the week was the preliminary police court...