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...Powell Croom-Johnson, peered over the rims of its half-moon spectacles and remarked with acerbity: "This is a very ordinary case." But to the ruddy-cheeked Sussex countrymen who jammed a Lewes courtroorn last week, the air seemed charged with mysterious mesmeric forces. There was, for example, the plea of plaintiff's counsel that the defendant "should not sit anywhere in sight" of his client. "You are asking," inquired Justice Croom-Johnson, "that he should not hypnotize her?" Barrister John Flowers, Queen's Counsel, replied only that "it would be better if he is not too close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Entrancing Trial | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Matter of Course. In Newark, the court ruled out the plea for alimony in Mrs. Anna Herkaler's separation suit after it learned that the original quarrel began when she served her husband a bowl of soup made from his pet pigeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...plea for student cooperation and the announcement that milk and juice servings would be restricted to two glasses came from Administrative Vice President Edward F. Reynolds '15 on January 14. At that time he also announced the board raise from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Wastage Decreases for Feb.; Heaman Calls Cooperation Factor | 3/27/1952 | See Source »

...Christ from growing impressively; membership, heaviest in the South and Southwest, has doubled in 25 years. Their basic doctrine is a literalistic belief in the New Testament. Central tenets are baptism by immersion and communion every Sunday. Says an Abilene colleague of Nichols: "Our growth is phenomenal because our plea is simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Literal & Simple | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Short Shrift for Plea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Backs New Plan to Change School Year | 3/18/1952 | See Source »

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