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...trial of Los Angeles Physician Bernard Finch and his pretty mistress, Carole Tregoff, both accused of murdering Finch's wife, lasted four months (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week, after deliberating for nearly 40 hours, the Finch jury (five men, seven women) signaled a hopeless deadlock. The split: 10-2 for conviction of Bernie Finch on a murder charge, 4-8 for conviction on the charge of conspiracy to murder; for Carole Tregoff, 4-8 for conviction on the charges of both murder and conspiracy to murder. Wearily, District Attorney William McKesson told the defendants to prepare...
Tiger Bay (Rank; Continental) is a waterfront slum in Cardiff, Wales. A freighter lands. A sailor hurries to his mistress. In the flat where she lives, the table is set for two-but not for him. She suggests that he go "sleep with the sea." With rising fury they scream at each other in Polish, but the przeklenstwa are not loud enough to smother the pistol shots that kill...
Janek's hope, like the hope of many another innocent, is that Russia and the U.S., as victors, would "build a new world together." But already some know better. "You are such a child, Janek," says his child-mistress...
...Pepper Gun. Through this tortured political tale runs a beautifully unexpected thread-a true love story. Marie Louise Vogeler, born into a bohemian-utopian-socialist circle in Germany, was first Gustav Regler's mistress, then his wife, and always his real conscience. As a young girl on the family farm, she knew left-wingers as loquacious loungers who would cut down a walnut tree under which Rilke had written a poem rather than walk farther for firewood-and knew at the same time that nothing good would come of that lot. Through her beauty and her faith...
Then Irene's maid leaves. Author de Céspedes is so skilled that she can make this trite crisis the means of her restless heroine's selfdiscovery. The maid, Erminia, is a simple village girl who likes her mistress but finds her life confusing. She leaves to take a job with a woman who is a tyrant but at least leads a recognizable life: mistress of the house but subordinate to her husband, the master. Through Erminia's desertion. Irene comes to see that tedious family convention is not necessarily more depressing than her own joyless...