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...Grierson has carpentered a trimly joined plot, with Freudian underpinnings and a legalistic overlay, to describe the ugly events leading up to the fatal night in the little English town and the court battle that followed. Having disposed of the body, mother and son buttress the boy's plea of- self-defense by disposing of the dead man's reputation. Margaret threatens to tell all; but even she is finally persuaded that her brother's neck is worth more than her father's name, remains silent when testimony paints the dead man as a brute...
...opened an office in Wadsworth House and immediately began to plug for an infirmary. James Stillman of New York was the first to heed Bailey's plea. He came across with $150,000, and Stillman opened...
Died. José P. Melencio, 58, chief of the Philippine mission in Japan, who first gained fame at 26 by his eloquent plea for Philippine independence before the 1920 Democratic National Convention, in 1946 became the first consul general of the Philippine Republic in New York City; of a heart attack; in Tokyo...
Among the heap of letters gracing our desk a few days ago was a plea for journalistic unity. The editors of the Daily Princetonian, anxious over football's current health, are drumming up enthusiasm for the return of spring practice and a requirement that each Ivy League members play five other members every year. Their missive, like those sent to the other six Ivy League newspapers, exhorted us to join with them in this drive. We can hardly go along, though...
...Algonquin argued that each day of delay would cost it $32,000 in idle men and materials. Replied Northeastern: the only "emergency" was that Algonquin had unwisely built a pipeline on a contested claim. Ruled the FPC majority: under the court decisions, FPC could not grant Algonquin's plea. Instead, FPC ordered new hearings to decide if Northeastern should get the whole market. Not only did Algonquin face expensive delays while the new hearing dragged on. But should it lose, it faced the gloomy prospect of trying to sell its premature pipeline for what it could...