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After the Opera. A fair number of Americans in Paris eventually turn up at the hospital. Schoolteacher Anne Louise McMahon of Lewisburg, W. Va. was crossing the Boulevard des Capucines one night last month, after attending the opera, when a motorcyclist roared down the street and hit her; she suffered a broken left leg. "Right away," she says, "I thought of my little card." Her friends fished it out of her pocketbook and handed it to the gendarme who sent her, d'urgence, to the American Hospital. Card or no, the police probably would have sent her there anyway...
Bennett E. Meyers, onetime major general and big-shot purchasing agent for the Air Force, was released from the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. After serving 318 days of a one-year sentence for $61,400 income tax evasion, plus 30 days more for failure to pay the $15,000 fine, he signed a pauper's oath and promised to give to the Government, toward payment of the fine, a percentage of any future money he may earn...
Regardless of the motion for a new trial, Hiss, who has already served ten months of his five-year sentence, is eligible for remission of some 15 months for good behavior and may be released from the Lewisburg, Pa. federal prison in November 1954. He will be eligible for an earlier parole next November...
...Massachusetts Bar Association petitioned the state supreme court to "disbar, censure or suspend" Alger Hiss, disbarred in New York last year, and now in Lewisburg, Pa. prison serving a five-year sentence for perjury...
...Baltimore's federal district court. To answer the suit, Chambers brought forth the famed "pumpkin papers." Result: Hiss's indictment and conviction for perjury. Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut last week dismissed the suit "with prejudice," which means that Hiss (now serving a five-year sentence at Lewisburg, Pa. penitentiary) may never again file a similar action against Chambers...