Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Court found the plea valid. Noting that the same law makes it an offense to "impede" a federal officer, the court asked: If a man locked a door to keep out several federal officers, would he "commit as many crimes as there are officers?" Obviously not, as the majority saw it. Dissenting, Justice Tom Clark argued that the majority decision made assaults on federal officers "just as cheap by the dozen." Still to be decided by lower courts: Did Ladner fire only one shot...
...forced Manhattan's seven major dailies into silence (see PRESS) and only one of the city's four new Broadway plays (S. N. Behrman's The Cold Wind and the Warm) had the full tide of critical scrutiny. Dutifully, reviewers hunched down in aisle seats and saw their appraisals through the typewriter. Theater pressagents soon had mimeographed copies of neatly excerpted reviews ready, but only the playgoer passionate enough to watch for critical summaries on radio and TV got the impact of first-nighters' verdicts. The score...
...again. Before the first round was over, in Montreal's Forum last week, Archie was decked once more for a nine count. The partisan crowd howled at the prospect of watching the long-delayed demise of boxing's most amazing relic. Said Archie later: "Every time I saw the referee, he was counting over...
...noticeable strain or impairment of his powerful punch. He slyly insists he got a secret reducing formula while fighting in Australia years ago, gave an aborigine a red turtlenecked sweater for it. Says Archie: "I figured they had the straight dope. All the time I was there, I never saw a fat aborigine...
CHILD OF OUR TIME, by Michel del Castillo. A harrowing, terribly unsophisticated testimony to man's capacity for inhumanity, and a minor masterpiece of its kind. Written as a novel, it reads more like the bitter, autobiographical odyssey of the boy who, at three, saw corpses on the streets of Madrid, experienced the concentration camp's life-in-death during the '30s and '40s, survived the indifference of his own parents, and could still perceive the good in life...