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...most of the recent discussion. Example: should the indictments be short (Anglo-American practice), or an almost complete statement of the prosecution's case (Continental practice)? A French expert described the resulting compromise: "A Continental lawyer looking at the document will object because it is based on Saxon law; a Saxon lawyer will claim it's based on Continental law-this proves it is good...
Died. John Munro Woolsey, 68, stocky, scholarly ex-federal judge whose pungent opinions on the legal nature of obscenity encouraged many a breezy headline; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed verdict, on James Joyce's Ulysses: ''Many of the words . . . characterized as dirty are old Saxon words known to almost all men and, I venture, to many women. . . . It must ... be remembered that [Joyce's] locale was Celtic and his season was spring...
...centuries after the birth of Christ, an Anglo-Saxon invader named Leaxa settled in the Midlands of ancient Britain. His settlement was named Laxton, or Lexington-"the place of Leaxa's men." More than a thousand years later, men carried this already hoary name to the colony of Massachusetts where, one morning in 1775, it suddenly became historic. The name & fame of Lexington spread like wildfire through the colonies, until at last it even reached a lonely hunting camp far beyond the Cumberland Gap. "Let us call this place Lexington," said one of the hunters admiringly. And so they...
...schoolgirl in Boston, over 50 years ago, we wanted to use the name "Jabberwock" for a new school paper. We wrote to the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) to ask his permission. He replied that we might use the name, then said that "wock" was an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "the result of," and we all knew the meaning of "jabber," therefore the paper would be the result of much excited discussion. He also said he would like to subscribe...
Directed by Hibbard G. James '46, this first HDC production of the term will have a cast of five. Andrew M. Smith '48. Tom Gad of the V-12, and William M. Mayleas '46 will play the male parts, while Miss Doreen Saxon, Radcliffe '48, and Miss Nancy Boyle, Radcliffe '46 will hold down the female roles in the play's premiere...