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This was the story which John Blymyer told last week in court at York, Pa., standing trial for the murder of Nelson D. Rehmeyer. "Are you unhexed now?" Judge Ray Sherwood asked him. "Yes. I got the witch. ..." said John Blymyer...
...desk, in the time-honored office of Life, and wrote, last week, under the caption The Movies, the following wan preamble: "With head uncovered I bow reverently and take my pen in hand to write this column, formerly edited by the dean of all moving picture critics, Robert E. Sherwood...
...tears Critic Evans shed were crocodile tears. After all he had kept his job, nay, got a better one. Many of the funnymen who have been engaged the last few years in making Life comical were looking for new markets for their quips and quiddities. Among them was Robert Sherwood himself, who, in addition to reviewing the movies, had been editor of the magazine for four years, associate editor for four years before that...
...getting most of their fun out of reading the brisk, bright pages of their foolish contemporary and lifelong rival, Judge. Life itself didn't seem half so funny as it ought to be. So eventually they beguiled Norman Hume Anthony, editor of Judge, to come over and take Sherwood's place...
This was not the first time that Mr. Dreiser had been accused of plagiarism. George Ade shamed him in 1926; Columnist Franklin P. Adams of the New York World found remarkably similar passages in Mr. Dreiser's works and in Sherwood Anderson's earlier Winesburg, Ohio...