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...Fort Sill, Okla...
...intellectual who didn't believe in God, scorned healthy exercise, and subscribed to the New Republic. But Kent marked me for life. If there's hard work to be done and I get out of it, I feel extremely guilty. That's the attitude Father Sill inculcated in us." The late Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, founder and headmaster of Kent, was a thunderous personality whose bolts of reproof struck Jim regularly. Recalls his senior-year roommate: "Jim had read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and he decided Christianity was a lot of hooey. He thought he should enlighten Father...
...part from Lake Michigan by way of the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, joins the sluggish Mississippi in its 2,350-mile sweep to the Gulf. There, as many as 200 Chicago-bound barges were stalled at one time this fall as the water in the lower sill, diminished by the four-year drought in the Mississippi Valley (TIME, Dec. 17), fell from its normal (9 ft.) level to a bottom-scraping 6 ft., thus forcing the carriers to lighten their loads if they were to proceed. For the shippers the lightening was time-consuming and expensive...
...Violet's story with physical proof. Into the case came Ballistics Expert Stanley MacDonald, Multnomah County detective chief in Portland, Ore. MacDonald examined fabric shreds, wall sections, photographs, figured the directions of the four shots, compared firings from the shotgun. Two months later he presented his findings: Marion Sill had fired three times at Violet, then reloaded the gun; the fourth shot, which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore, Expert MacDonald pointed out that the shots fired...
Last week Attorney Dave Weyer's petition for pardon was sent to Washington's Governor Arthur B. Langlie. With it were supporting statements from the trial judge and the head of the state parole board. Violet Sill, now 37, no longer felt a need to be pushed around, to feel guilty. Chances were good that she would soon be free...