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...startling as it is novel," Appeals Court Judges William Healy and William E. Orr wrote of Judge Harris' decision. "There is no showing," they said, "that Bridges has in the present juncture committed any recognizable crime or that he has . . . sought to ... impede by [any] means the prompt loading and dispatch of ships to the Far East." The jailing...
...Christians was widened last week-by a split hair's breadth. A secret consistory was called to meet in Rome Oct. 30 to hear the Pope proclaim as official Roman Catholic dogma that the Virgin Mary was taken bodily into heaven at her death. The decision drew a prompt and strongly worded attack from the Church of England...
...became the first organized reserve squadron to be accepted intact for the Korean war. Every pilot in the squadron was ready for active duty on one condition, that they go as a unit. Forty of VF-781's enlisted ground crewmen felt the same way. Their prompt and unanimous application got a brisk salute from Vice Admiral John Dale Price in Washington-and a sheaf of orders to duty...
...weighing and the abstention of two members on pacifist grounds, the Committee produced a resolution on the Korean war. "An act of aggression has been committed . . . Armed attack as an instrument of national policy is wrong. We therefore commend the United Nations, an instrument of world order, for its prompt decision to meet this aggression, and for authorizing a police measure which every member nation should support...
Treasure Island (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is Walt Disney's first movie made with live actors only. For a generation of small fry brought up on comic books, its Technicolor is gaudy enough to bring Robert Louis Stevenson's classic to life. For adults, the film will prompt sentimental memories of their first encounter with cached doubloons and double-crossing buccaneers-and perhaps make them wonder a little that they could ever have taken it so seriously...