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...Wilkes-Barre, Pa. is named after Wilkes (and a fellow M.P., Colonel Isaac Barre). The American colonists, with their own mounting grievances against George III, were natural Wilkites...
...infinitely patient Isaac Burton Tigrett, 65, can get control of the bankrupt midwest Alton Railroad Co., as he was all set to do last week, he will have reached a goal he set for himself 34 years ago. Rail roader Tigrett's goal: to tie together a rail system reaching from the Gulf to the Great Lakes...
...incredible guilelessness of Isaac Emmanuel's errand, and his courage and dignity before his brutal judge and torturers, serve all the more to convince the Gestapo that he has a great deal to cover up. After prison scenes which recall those of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the old man is released, thanks to an Anglo-Jewish cabaret star and a Nazi bigshot (Walter Rilla) who is infatuated with her. When at length old Isaac does find the boy's mother, she has married a Nazi and has so wholly betrayed all that was ever good...
...most important legal decision for lizards in 200,000,000 years has been handed down by a South African court. In Johannesburg Isaac Alter, owner of a curio shop, was haled before a court because two of his native (Negro) employes had separated 30 live lizards from their valuable skins. Cruelty to animals is an offense under South African law. But the case raised a nice point of biolegalism: is a lizard an animal? Ruled Magistrate C. J. Humphreys: "An animal is a sentient being which takes food in a digestive cavity, has the power of voluntary motion...
...historical and biological order . . . into which . . . one enters by birth, never to be released until the last day but one. A Jew who steps up to the baptismal font . . . deserts . . . from the side of the weak and the persecuted . . . from Israel's deepest origins, from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. . . . [He] deserts Christ Himself, since he arbitrarily interrupts his historical suffering - the penance for rejecting the Messiah...