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In absolute terms, the March 12th balloting will mean little. Even Senator Norris Cotton concedes that his constituents' verdict is unreliable. "The average voter in New Hampshire," he said in an Atlantic interview,"feels ten feet high. He is thinking how his vote will have this terrific meaning for...
Strictly speaking, an injunction is simply an order by a court requiring that its interpretation of the law be com plied with. Willful failure to comply is contempt of court, and fines and jail sentences can be imposed. Overuse of the device in the early days of trade unionism made...
Died. Frank Callan Norris, 60, magazine editor and novelist, a Tennessee Irishman who signed on as a writer for TIME in 1929, was co-managing editor from 1937 to 1941 (he coined the term World War II) before becoming managing editor of the March of Time from 1941 to 1946...
Another member of our Washington bureau made news himself last week. On the Cal 40 sloop, Lancetilla II, owned and skippered by him, Economics Correspondent Juan Cameron won the Annapolis-Newport regatta, which this year proved to be one of the roughest in memory. Among Cameron's crew were...
Time was when Norris Bostwick, a 39-year-old New York restaurant cashier, liked to polish off ten hot dogs before dinner. He weighed 399 lbs. and was rejected by every girl he met, as well as by the U.S. Army. Walking up one flight of stairs, he recalls, was...