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...Testaments in Rome and Bethlehem, later translated the Bible into its most enduring edition, the Latin Vulgate. He was an ex travagant polemicist, once characterized dark-skinned St. Augustine as "a little Numidian ant." After Alaric's sack of Rome in 404, Jerome laid aside his pen for refugee work...
...flower-bedecked throne he announced that he would not become a U.S. citizen, that the return match with Floyd Patterson would probably be in Los Angeles. Later, with ballpoint pen in hand, he autographed the prettily preened neck of Movie Star Bibi Anderson, added: "It will last longer if you varnish it." Everyone howled...
Anatomy of a Murder (Carlyle Productions; Columbia), based on the 1958 bestseller by Robert T raver (pen name of Justice John D. Voelker of the Michigan Supreme Court), is a courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. In scene after scene, the customers are bombarded with such no-nonsense words as "intercourse . . . contraceptive . . . spermatogenesis . . . sexual climax." And even the least barkbound of spectators may find himself startled to see and hear, in his neighborhood movie house, extended discussion of what constitutes rape ("Violation is sufficient; there need not be a completion ... on the part...
...light of publicity shine than it was shut off again by Democratic Territorial Senator John Duarte, chairman of the watchdog Accounts Committee, who ordered a blackout on senate equipment inventories. Cried Republican Senator Wilfred Tsukiyama, a candidate for the U.S. House: "I didn't even get a pen. Mine was stolen." Said Democratic Senator Sakai Takahashi: "Somebody else grabbed my desk set." Said Senator Oren E. Long, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate: "Darn it all, my gavel was stolen...
...Poet Morris exploded. "Until now, poetry hasn't been considered a crime. This is absolutely ridiculous," he announced, and made the front page of the New York Herald Tribune. His remarks also attracted the attention of Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm, who was moved to compassion. Taking pen in hand, Commissioner Arm handed down a ruling...