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...autocratic policies last week, flayed them for "seeing with the eyes of a poorly or falsely informed foreign world." Next day, in a suit to test Reichsbischof Müller's January decree on which he based his Protestant dictatorship, the Berlin High Court declared: "The decree undoubtedly is invalid, and thus everything is null and void that the Reichsbischof has done on the strength of the powers he has given to himself by a crass infraction...
Once with 1,500 men Morgan attacked a Federal garrison of 2,500, got clean away with 1,800 prisoners, some much-needed socks and boots. For this exploit he was made a brigadier-general. Morgan's first wife, an invalid, died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants...
...along the coast of France on a 30-day inspection of gambling casinos; ties a discarded mistress in an armchair where she suffocates; goes to jail for murder; escapes after 13 years to rescue his daughter who has been convinced by her mother that she is a chronic invalid. It appears certain, when His Greatest Gamble ends, that Philip Eden will go back to jail and his daughter (Dorothy Wilson) will marry a bedraggled reporter (Bruce Cabot) who gives every sign of becoming as assiduously irresponsible as his father...
...directors he served came a cropper. Thanks to Roiter, its affairs were wound up before they fell foul of the law, but the directors' reputations for smartness were not enhanced. Roiter resigned from the university, got many an abusive letter in his daily mail. He knew that his invalid son. best of his family, was dying. When Hallem's son brought him the news of his father's suicide and accused Roiter of having always felt contempt for Hallem, of needing his wretchedness as a foil for his own excellence. Roiter admitted it. When Roiter died...
ALICE JAMES: HER BROTHERS, HER JOURNAL-ed. by Anna Robeson Burr- Duffield &Green ($2.50). Well-edited story of the invalid sister of the (Boston) James boys...