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Your article entitled "Poison Pen" [TIME, April 12] has all the markings of a wait-till-next-week serial...
...Terre Haute, Ind., William Dudley Pelley, onetime leader of the Silver Shirts, hoped to spring himself out of the pen on a writ of habeas corpus. Six years after his conviction for sedition, Pelley argued that the only thing proved against him was that he was against Communism...
Since 1841, Mt. Everest (29,000 ft.), in the Himalayas, has reigned as the highest peak in the world. It has never been climbed.* But a few pilots thought they had seen a higher one among the Amne Machin Mountains of West China. When peripatetic Pen-Manufacturer Milton Reynolds went looking for such a peak (TIME, April 12), he ran into trouble with the Chinese government, failed to get anywhere or prove anything. Last week, another expedition quietly took off from a hard-packed loess runway at Lanchow to make the first recorded flight directly over the Amne Machins...
They are extremely vicious, he reports, and have to be handled carefully. The pen which they inhabit is carefully padded, and water in their pool is changed regularly. "They have to be submerged most of the time," says Pleus...
...find, American officers summoned him from his village of Mahlow. They knew his record: he was a onetime (1920-27) publicist for the Krupp works at Essen, later an anti-Nazi novelist and broadcaster. During the war he had escaped the Gestapo's notice by dropping his pen name of Reger for his real name, Hermann Dannenberger...