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...Poisonous Tree. Present law on wiretapping is confused and inadequate. The Supreme Court's first ruling on the subject (Olmstead v. U.S., 1928, a bootlegging case) held that wiretapping by federal agents was not a violation of the right, guaranteed in the Fourth Amendment, "to be secure . . . against unreasonable searches and seizures." Said Chief Justice Taft, delivering the majority opinion: "There was no entry of the houses or offices . . . The language of the amendment cannot be extended and expanded to include telephone wires reaching to the whole world . . ." Four Justices, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, dissented...
...contrast, Caroline Ivey's The Family is reassuring in its pedestrian normality. Novelist Ivey has turned to that familiar Southern fixture, a genteel family going gracefully to seed. Into the Olmstead household comes a Northern son-in-law, brilliant, restless and unhappy. Though he loves his wife, he cannot fit into her family or persuade her to break away from it. Why should they always be kissing and hugging, reminiscing about adolescent trivia, delighting in the vast disorder of their house, and still honoring the obsolete cult of the Southern Lady? Most of The Family is a quarrel...
Dave Symmes at number two had to go five games before beating Lyman Olmstead of the University Club, 17-14, 12-15, 9-15, 15-12, and 16-15. Altie Flagg brought the Crimson a two to one victory by defeating Dave Gorman, 16-14, 12-15, 15-7, and 15-11 in the third match...
Massachusetts A-31--William D. Weeks (Boston); Matthews 10--William F. Gleason III (Chicago); Matthews 22--David R. Ferry (Maplewood. New Jersey); Matthews 33--Edward F. Burke (Providence, Rhode Island); Matthews 46--Samuel C. Butler (Logansport, Indiana); Mower A-11--Stephen R. Graubard (Cambridge); Stoughton 18--Charles H. Olmstead (Hartford, Connecticut...
John Rauh, Frank Holzman, Charles Olmstead, and Jason Xenakis have already qualified in the men's singles...