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Called by her keeper, police found Sylvia's body with arms crossed over her breast. Even to hardened cops, the sight was stomach wrenching. Virtually no part of the girl's corpse was unmarked. Her fingernails had been broken upward; there were massive bruises on her temples; much of the skin on her face, chest, arms and legs had peeled from scalding water. Her lower lip had been bitten in two, presumably during her agony. The immediate cause of death was a blow on the skull. In all, Sylvia's body bore an estimated 150 burns, cuts...
...jury returned a sizable verdict for Edith Soronen, and the defendants appealed. A tavern may be liable to an innocent third person injured by a drunk whom it has helped to tank up, but must it also be its pickled brother's keeper? defendants asked. Yes, the New Jersey Supreme Court said last week. "Contributory negligence is not available as a defense to a liquor licensee who has sold alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated person." Quoting a lower court approvingly, Judge Nathan Jacobs said that the law barring sales to drunks would be "meaningless, if a tavernkeeper could...
...Turner's most famous oils, those other paintings that during his lifetime he had kept carefully hidden away in his studio along with his intimate sketchbooks and his notes on technical research. And it is Turner's lesser-known works, selected by the Tate Gallery's Keeper of British Painting Lawrence Gowing and the Modern's Monroe Wheeler, that strike contemporary sensibilities with such stunning effect...
...comedy, has abdicated originality in favor of the safe and same. As recently as ten years ago, such comedians as Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs were savagely satirizing everything from fatherhood to French movies. Today on TV, comedy is rarely allowed to lumber into view unless preceded by its keeper-situation. Perhaps, too, it was inevitable that once man found a way to can the stuff of life he would some day find a way to can the stuff of the soul-laughter. Canned laughter is everywhere; TV has become a robot talking to itself, giggling at its own jokes...
From Outer Space. When they tired of too much Candy, reporters came up with surprising sidebars. The Chicago Daily News's M. W. Newman noted that Candy's brother DeWitt Weatherby, a Georgia tavern keeper, was convicted in 1956 of murdering a customer; one of his defense attorneys was Carl Sanders, now the Governor of Georgia. The Miami News's Haines Colbert reported that on the anniversary of her husband's death, Candy sent newspapers some pictures of herself and her four adopted children mourning at Mossler's grave...