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Rambling Rounsevell Sirs: I enjoyed your interesting article captioned "N. R." (TIME, Sept. 30) and wish to commend you for your good judgment in featuring the man instead of the libel suit, which is nothing unusual for Nelson Rounsevell. I spent a year on the Panama American, 1931-32, and...
Last week a Federal judge in Ancon, C. Z. directed a jury to dismiss, for insufficient evidence, the first count?that Publisher Rounsevell had compared Colonel James V. Heidt to Adolf Hitler, in an editorial intimating misuse of company funds.
Few months ago a series of suicides among enlisted men at Fort Clayton, in the Canal Zone, caused Publisher Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American to charge the commander of that post with working his men mercilessly under the tropical sun, driving them to smoke marijuana cigarets which led to...
A onetime gambler and dipsomaniac who, at 58, delights in recalling his purple past, Nelson Rounsevell is known chiefly for the autobiography he published two years ago under the title The Life Story of "N. R." or 40 Years of Rambling, Gambling and Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing. Crudely...
Up bobbed the Republic of Panama's valiant little President Harmodio Arias with his personal check for the $2,500 bail. The chuckleheaded court constable refused it. President Arias sent out a detail of his own police to cash a check of Publisher Rounsevell's. They returned with...