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...support until the blood test which may or may not show that he did not father her unborn child. From the white house in the San Francisco hills where Chaplin's new, recently ailing father-in-law Eugene O'Neill† works with his third wife, Carlotta Monterey, on a long awaited cycle of plays, no word came. The bride's mother sent congratulations. Said Joan Berry: "He can't do this...
Month ago, an Army court-martial at Monterey, Calif, sentenced slight, bespectacled Herbert Weatherbee, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, to prison for life. His crime: refusal to obey a superior officer who ordered him to salute the flag. Last week the American Civil Liberties Union publicized Weatherbee's story, adding it to the growing list of persecutions suffered by the anticlerical, religious group which refuses to bow before any "image" or to fight in any war save Jehovah...
...very poor fighting machine-"not a battleship at all." Assigned to the old cruiser Brooklyn, he immediately began tearing her apart in a report, remarked: "I invite you to take a look at the wreck of the Brooklyn when I get through with her." Of the monitor Monterey at Canton, he made only an informal complaint...
Last April 29 Barney shot and killed his 36-year-old uncle, Nickoli ("Dick") Payne, at their ranch in the Monterey County mountains, because he had been "bawled out" for not doing his chores. His sentence: life...
Steinbeck's paisanos, remains of the original Spanish settlers above Monterey, are a simple, indolent, pleasure-loving lot who live in happy poverty on ramshackle Tortilla Flat. Pilon and his band of rascally idlers would rather filch their beloved food and wine and sleep out under the giant redwood trees than earn their keep by chopping squids in the town below. They are probably the most harmless, insignificant people alive, but Steinbeck's story of religious faith and the good works it inspired lifts them out of their humble uselessness, preaching the essential dignity of all mankind...