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...must see that the supply [of news] is not tainted. . . . Comment is free, but facts are sacred. . . . Comment also is justly subject to a self-imposed restraint. It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair. This is an ideal. . . . We can but try, ask pardon for shortcomings, and there leave the matter...
...Cheyenne, famed Train Robber William ("Wild Bill") Carlisle, 57, was granted a full pardon by the State of Wyoming. In his prime, Wild Bill bedeviled the U.P. line as it has never been bedeviled since. Always sending the road a taunting advance notice, he successfully robbed three U.P. trains in 1916, had a price of $11,500 on his head and 1,000 men hunting him before he was captured and sent to prison for life. Paroled in 1932, he went straight, now runs a tourist camp near Laramie...
...tension was hemispheric. In a Calgary, Alberta court, the Crown interrupted his address to the jury to glance at a note. Then he passed it on to defense counsel, who broke into a grin and quickly apologized: "Pardon me, gentlemen, but I have just received today's ball score." The judge suggested drily that the jury would like to know the news too. "Of course, your Lordship," came the answer. "The Dodgers...
Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake. And if that is not too easy We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, what e'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb...
Even among Roman Catholics, who normally begin regular confession at about the age of seven, there is often misapprehension about what kind of sins should be confessed. In a new book, Pardon & Peace (Sheed & Ward; $2.50), Father Alfred Wilson, a British Passionist, deals lucidly with this problem...