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...from testifying takes the form of physical coercion. When the father refuses to be bribed into silence, his child is held hostage. To save the life of the young boy the entire family decide to withhold its knowledge of the killing, that is, all but the inordinately chauvinitsic grandfather, relic of Bull Run, who refuses to be intimidated by a "bunch of yellow-bellied foreigners". At the climax the child is rescued, and the Civil War veteran gives the testimony that sends the killer to the chair...
...Henry Dennis, who looks and acts like a Roman senator, and who has been on the News for 40 years, will continue to closet himself with the editorial page, attacking and revising editorials on a large board laid across his knees. Conservative, sentimental, Editor Dennis personifies the News, a relic of the days of Founder Lawson, the days of Writers Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, George Ade, Keith Preston and Dramacritic Amy Leslie (TIME, Sept. 8). Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith, lean, droop-mustached, with a stride like a camelopard, will continue to run the news staff...
...smoke until after the Royal Toast, but in the middle of dinner a huge silver sarcophagus full of toothpicks is solemnly passed round the table, a relic from the founder of Cowes, Henry VIII...
...ancient slab of bone, shaped and curved like a cupped hand, gave Australian anatomists imaginative play last week. The bone was found recently near the Jervois Mountains in southern Australia. The bone is the top of a female's skull. The hind part of the relic indicates that, from the rear, she looked like an ape with head canted slightly forward. She had very powerful neck muscles. Her walk was slouchy, but nonetheless habitually upright. Thus her hands were free and more nimble than an ape's. She probably could braid twigs, early step in the art which...
...time. The occasion was a belated climax to his career as Secretary of the Navy (1924-29). Frankly a sentimentalist, one of his outstanding deeds in office was sponsoring the collection of thousands of pennies from thousands of school children to pay for the reconstruction of this black, chunky relic. Now he had crossed the country from California to participate in the ceremony of recommissioning, to make a speech linking the Constitution's record with international peace...