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...Overholser reached the finals for the individual epee title and will face five opponents in a round robin tonight. Overholser will face one man from Yale and two each from Navy and NYU in the finals...
...achieving of high humanitarian purposes by the easy method of using the involuntary good Samaritan ... is not edifying. There ought to be a better method of making the legal order effective for our humanitarian ideals than that of Robin Hood or that of the pickpocket who . . . was so moved by the preacher's eloquence that he picked the pockets of everyone in reach and put the contents in the plate...
Died. Alan Hale (real name: Alan Mac-Kahn), 57, veteran cinemactor (The Covered Wagon, Robin Hood), part-time inventor (a sliding theater seat); of pneumonia; in Hollywood...
...excommunicated Queen Elizabeth. After this step it becomes increasingly difficult and dangerous to profess the Roman Catholic faith in England. "Design for a Stained Glass Window" deals with the effects of this pressure on the convictions of several people in the ten years covered by the play's action. Robin Flemming, a tradesman of York, forswears Catholicism and eventually becomes Earl of Hartford a favorite of Elizabeth. His partner, John Clitherow, a prosperous Anglican merchant, wished to leave others alone and to he left alone, but this turns out to be impossible...
Nighttime Nibble. Two months ago while 2,000 hand-picked carabinieri scoured Sicily's wind-whipped hills in a vain search for Giuliano, Meldolesi hinted to Italian editors that the celebrated "Robin Hood of Sicily" had invited him to his hideout. Only Editor Edilio Rusconi of Milan's weekly Oggi (Today) fell for Meldolesi's story. Rusconi assigned a top reporter to work with him, paid 800,000 lire (about $1,300) for the promised beat...