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R.I.P. In Rockford, Ill., the. tombstone of Criminal Lawyer John Goembel bore the straight-forward inscription: "The Defense Rests...
Methodist to Madness. At 38, Earl Wilson is a chunky, sad-eyed little (5 ft. 6) fellow with an ear tuned for the casual wisecrack, an eye cocked for the offbeat feature story. The Saloon Editor comes from saloonless Rockford, Ohio, where at twelve he was choreboy for a country weekly, and later taught Methodist Sun-dav school. When he landed...
...Winnebago County, Illinois, which includes Rockford (pop. 84,637). The city, which has had 163 cases and 19 deaths, waited last week to find out whether a spraying with DDT (TIME, Aug. 27), does any good. New cases fell off a little...
...scientific expedition headed by Yale's Dr. John R. Paul sprayed DDT on the polio-ridden city of Rockford, Ill. (147 cases, 17 deaths since July 1), to find out whether killing all the flies would prevent the spread of infantile paralysis...
Sirs: Artificial insemination (TIME, Feb. 26), though perhaps desirable from the standpoint of eugenics, has its dangers. Some popular demagogue might aspire to be the actual father of his country. Some crooner might flood the country with too much of the same thing. ERNEST RASTALL Rockford...