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...from time to time, contradictions bulged out in Crouch's sworn testimony. In a deportation hearing against the Chicago Sun-Times's Cartoonist Jacob Burck last year, Crouch testified that he had often seen Burck at Communist Party meetings and offices. When asked to identify Burck, he pointed to Chicago Tribune Photographer Max Arthur, who does not resemble Burck. In a Philadelphia Smith Act trial of several second-string Communists, Crouch testified freely about one David Davis. Then a defense lawyer reminded Crouch that in the perjury trial of West Coast Labor Leader Harry Bridges, Crouch had denied...
...Herbert Jacob, Springfield, Government...
Died. J. (for Jacob) K. (for Kay) Lasser, 57, Manhattan tax expert, famed for his yellow-jacketed annual booklet Your Income Tax, which has sold more than 12 million copies since it was first published in 1936; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...Mountains. Author Murray's scene is a South African valley, bounded by mountains and the sea, and speckled with the houses and shacks of Dutch, English, French and Kaffir Africans. On the surface, it is like any other valley in the civilized world-"a poor community," says old Jacob Fieldfare, "[where] someone is always frowning over a bill, or scraping to buy a new coat. We tell lies and gossip, our faces are drawn with longing for possessions and qualities which we do not have: power, personality, happiness, electric light, golf championships, more brandy, exciting friends, fame, white skins...
...people of the valley are suffering from one form or another of African sickness. Etienne Cavecon, a young schoolmaster, has the disease in its most benign form, "indolence." For Etienne, every day passes like every other, leaving him untouched, unchanged, unmoved, like a man asleep. His foster father Jacob, with whom Etienne lives, has spent his time observing life with such quiet detachment that he has "reached his sixtieth year without ever having had a serious illness or an enduring sorrow." Vigorous pioneers built the home of Jacob and Etienne, but in four generations the family has "shrunk...