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District Court Judge Elwood S. McKenney refused yesterday to hear the case of the nine people-including three Harvard students-charged with assault and battery in connection with the May 9 Medicaid protest because seven of the defendants insisted on acting as counsel for their own defense...
...McKenney also raised the bail of eight of the defendants from personal recognizance to $5000. The bail of the ninth defendant, Coleman P. Harrison '71, who was charged with armed robbery in addition to assault and battery, remained unchanged at $5000. As of last night, six defendants had failed to post the necessary five per cent collateral and were returned to custody...
...When two of the defendants told McKenney that they intended to act as their own counsel, he declined jurisdiction over the case and said he would not have the hearing degenerate into "a mockery of justice...
...Hurt the Pain." The Day of the Locust sold only 1,464 copies, but in 1940 West made up to $600 a week as a scriptwriter; that same year he married Eileen McKenney, the real-life model for the heroine of My Sister Eileen. Now at last he could buy time to write a big novel. But West's time was used up. In December 1940, he ran a stop sign and smashed into another car, killing his wife and himself...
...particularly enjoys the fact that the Project is being funded by the Defense Department," McKenney added, "but a million bucks is hard to come...