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Nothing but the Truth. In West Warwick, R.I., asked by the judge to explain why he ignored a policeman's signal to stop and instead snapped off his car lights and sped away, Motorist Paul R. McKenna answered: "I didn't want to be caught...
...cook, came Prophet James F. Jones himself. When about 15 yards separated him from Father Divine and his blonde wife, Mother Divine (in a mink jacket and orchid corsage), the ecstatic faithful piled in around them, crying, "Peace, peace-it's wonderful, wonderful!" A long-armed policeman was helpless to restore order. Then Father Divine raised his arm. "Peace, kindly move back." he said, and the crowd parted like...
...When the treasury sent him the President's customary $4,000 monthly check for "special expenses," hf turned it back and said he would get along on his salary as he always had. He refused to accept five 1953 cars presented by Mexico City auto dealers. When a policeman stopped his chauffeur from making an illegal U turn, the President had the cop publicly commended...
...Steady Squeeze. As they have ever since 1940, Benner and Reeves monopolized this year's match despite their crack rivals. After a day's shooting, -they were tied. Next day Policeman Reeves finished up 14 points ahead of Benner. But on the final day of the match. Reeves was a candidate for a hospital bed. With a fiery strep throat, full of fever (104°) and penicillin, he dragged himself to the range. At noon, he still held a thin lead over Armyman Benner. While the others ate lunch, Harry Reeves flopped in his hut. Shuttling between...
...book, Paton's manner has far more tedious, the treatment of the subject matter far less convincing. Pieter van Vlaanderen, the policeman, faces the problems of a full-blooded man who suffers from a prudish wife, a puritanical society and his own rigidly conventional conscience. So, after a long moral struggle that is talked about a great deal but hardly described at all, he gives in to his lust and goes after the girl Stephanie. By the scheming of a subordinate on the police force, he is caught, tried, and sent to jail (under South Africa's Immorality...