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This was everyone's great hope. But in the third week of the "police action" in Korea, with the policeman still being roughed up by the thugs he had gone to arrest, the details of just how the military expected to bring such hopes to realization were far from clear...
When the trial began in the crenelated, moated courthouse of nearby Turnhout, Witgoor's constable was called to testify. He shuddered violently and protested that witchcraft was not a policeman's business. Then Judge Boone took a moment to clear his throat. In that moment the constable fled through the doorway to freedom. A court attendant hurried after him, but there was no sign of the fugitive. "Witchery," murmured the court spectators...
...details of the arachnids' life are contained in a new book, The Spider, published in England, by John Crompton (author of The Hunting Wasp). Crompton, who describes himself as a layman writing for laymen, writes vividly and with vast enthusiasm. At various times he has been a mounted policeman in Rhodesia, a shipping-firm employee in China, an R.A.F. pilot, a novelist, a beekeeper. He has read-and liberally quotes-the experts, including the great Frenchman J. H. Fabre (TIME, Aug. 22) and several Americans. But his book is larded with personal observations and reminiscences, and he pays...
...Louisville, Ky., a traffic judge considered a policeman's testimony that Mrs. Katherine Mae Sahner had been "very talkative" when arrested for reckless driving, dismissed the drunken-driving charge against her with the comment: "Many women are talkative...
Silent Witness. In Detroit, Frank Buss, charged with biting a policeman while drunk, got a suspended sentence when the judge learned that he had no teeth...