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...court's sentence of life imprisonment. The ruling would be made by the National Council of People's Courts, Hungary's highest tribunal. Hungarian officials said that, whatever Mindszenty's final sentence, he would serve it in one of the country's "foremost penal institutions...
...PENAL COLONY (320 pp.)-Franz Kafka-Schocken...
...life. Gregor Samsa, a timid, unsuccessful salesman slaving for his family feels rejected and unwanted. At the end, he hears his sister say of his insect-self, "We must try to get rid of it." The Metamorphosis appears, with 43 other Kafka stories and "short pieces," in The Penal Colony, a collection recently published in the U.S. Like the more famous novels, The Trial and The Castle (TIME, April 28, 1947), all the stories are marked with the surface simplicity of fairy tales, and by Kafka's obsessive torment of spirit...
...whose death sentence for war crimes (he supervised the bombing of defenseless Warsaw and supine Rotterdam) was commuted in 1947 to life imprisonment, returned to his prison after a ten-day leave, spent with his wife at a Bavarian lakeside resort. It was all "in accordance with normal penal regulations," his British keepers announced; before he went, unguarded, "Smiling Albert" had given his word that he would be back...
These and other case histories of the victims of mental quacks are described by Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, in the current issue of the Woman's Home Companion. Says Dr. Fishbein: "Our mental hospitals, penal institutions and, yes, our graveyards contain many occupants who would not be there if we only required sensible standards for psychological practitioners...