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...contending that the FCC order was invalid and would cause "irreparable damage" to the TV industry and the public, asked a three-judge federal court in Chicago for an injunction. After two days of hearings, the judges issued a temporary restraining order against CBS to take effect while they studied the evidence. Said...
...broken thighbone that sent Shaw into the hospital when he slipped and fell in his garden last September had shown signs of knitting better than his doctors dared hope, but the Shavian spirit was broken for good. When Shaw guessed that he might live only to become a bedridden invalid, he lost interest in the business...
...plunged deep into Sarkese law. He soon discovered among other things that the very parliament in which he sat was illegally constituted: a law passed in 1925 requiring that all elected members of parliament be ratepayers had never been approved by Britain's Privy Council and hence was invalid. Henry got Sark's parliament, Britain's Privy Council and the hereditary Dame of Sark to call another election...
...story tells of a middle-aged man whose unwanted invalid wife suddenly dies. Almost immediately the man marries the Other Woman (Marian Russell)-a young girl he is smitten with and has got with child. But there is a second Other Woman-an older one, madly in love with the man, who has long imagined that he is in love with her. At this point it turns out, as was obvious all along, that the invalid was poisoned; and at this point the murderer's identity is almost as obvious...
...becomes U.S. model No. 1. But there is a gap in her life, and Ray Milland, a married mining engineer, comes along to fill it. After they have lived for three months in sin (but with utter devotion, of course), Milland tells her that his wife is an invalid and is on her way to New York. Lana hits the bottle, can't sleep, demands a showdown with Milland's loving wife (Margaret Phillips) and finds she cannot go through with it. Bravely, the lovers decide that they must part...