Word: probationer
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Thus, though Secretary Dulles attributed his decision to unspecified "new factors" in the China situation, it was clear that the State Department continued to consider the foreign operations of the press an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Said the pro-Administration New York Herald Tribune: "Inasmuch as the American press...
Dunned by his creditors, on probation for cutting classes, living beyond his mother's means (his father had died in 1920), Cozzens got a leave of absence at the end of his sophomore year, and never went back to Harvard's vine leaves. The school rewarded its prodigal...
Busy Little Fingers. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a 13-year-old who enjoyed leafing through the encyclopedia, was turned over to juvenile probation authorities after the discovery that he had assembled two-by-fours, a box and a sharpened steel plate to make a small but serviceable guillotine.
Before the court were the combined cases of 1) New York Trashmonger Samuel Roth, convicted (and sentenced to five years in prison and fined $5,000) for violating federal law by mailing obscene circulars and an obscene book (American Aphrodite), and 2) Los Angeles Mail-Order Salesman David Alberts, convicted...
Enfilade. In Milwaukee, Ulysses Simon, charged with attempting to kill a woman he shot in the back, was let off with a $100 fine and a year's probation for negligent use of a weapon, when the woman testified he fired not at her but at a nearby cuckoo...