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Even while losing the Connor case, the Times won another last week. A New York State supreme court jury decided in favor of the Times in a $1,000,000 libel suit brought by the J. Radley Metzger company, a textile firm. The suit was based on a 1958 Times editorial accusing the company of making "sweetheart contracts," defined in the editorial as "those which benefit racketeering union officials and employers." The jury agreed that however harsh the comment, the Times had acted without malice...
...England squires and manufacturers. His father was a professional soldier of limited mind, his mother a vague sort. Neither wasted affection on their solitary son, whose sole oddity consisted in his early-formed will to remain solitary. On the surface he was dutiful and won a scholarship to Radley, where he learned the natural eccentric's trick of fitting himself to the prescribed philistine middle-class mold while preserving his essence intact. His hero was Rimbaud, most gifted of all those who have opted out of civilization. Brenan wrote pieces in the manner of Rimbaud's Illuminations...
...also curious, and for hours he sits staring at the Radley place -just in case Boo Radley should come out. Boo is the village loony, and he hasn't been seen for 15 years. Never mind. Every child in town knows that he stands six foot six and has a long jagged scar on his face. His teeth are few, yellow and rotten. His eyes pop, and most of the time he drools. He eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch, and whenever an azalea bush dies in Maycomb everybody knows why-Boo breathed...
...escape, a guard shoots him dead. Nor is the nightmare ended even then. The girl's father, a vicious redneck with more whisky in his stumphole than brains in his head, goes stalking Scout and Jem with murder in his mind, and one night . . . But just then Boo Radley decides to come...
...this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend a Negro who is charged with raping a white woman. The rape trial, Jem's helling, and even Boo Radley are deeply involved in the irregular and very effective education of Scout Finch. By the time she ends her first-person account at the age of nine, she has learned that people must be judged, but only slowly and thoughtfully...