Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a handy man confessed to murdering an eleven-year-old girl last July, most of the city's radio stations decided to defy Rule 904; they broadcast his confession. Convicted of contempt of court, three stations and a commentator were fined from $100 to $500 (TIME, Feb. 7). They appealed the decision, contending that it was a threat to free speech and a free press. Last week, at Annapolis, the Maryland Court of Appeals agreed; it threw out Baltimore's gag rule as "illogical." Declared the court: "We are well aware of the high motives [involved...
...projects in various stages of completion. Sometimes they are delayed by ecclesiastics who have strenuously differing views about how a church should be decorated. But the work of Father Couturier is finding growing support among his fellow churchmen and also among such anticlericals as Henri Matisse, the grand old man of French painting. Said Matisse thoughtfully last week: "Father Couturier is a sensitive, intelligent and capable man. He is very active, very imaginative, and is currently doing a great deal...
...man who signed these replies "Yours very sincerely, Sherlock Holmes" was Samuel William Gibson Morton, a top company official. An old Holmes fan himself, Morton sent advice to farmers in Minnesota who were troubled by cattle thieves, to old ladies in Massachusetts who heard strange noises at night, and several times actually helped solve cases from clues supplied in the letters...
...Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius (Olga Katzin Miller) has written a dedication in verse ("Hedunit") to the hawk-nosed man in the deerstalker cap who "started a mania for singular cases, started a craving few addicts restrain, started a saga of amateur aces, whimsical, taciturn, dashing, urbane . . ." Holmes Addict Christopher Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn...
Chicago's cops got nowhere in their hunt for the killers. Fortnight ago, a letter with a jagged edge was mailed to the Sun-Times. The letter told where to find the gang which had murdered old man Engelhard. Editor Finnegan had the tip checked enough to convince him that it was the jackpot, and hustled it over to the police. Last week detectives arrested four members of a South Side gang, who confessed. Boasted the Sun-Times on Page One: SOMEBODY KNEW...