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...murder was more than a dramatic sequel to a romantic tragedy. It also raised the crucial question of whether U.S. law was ready to condone the savage, individualistic law of the frontier. The nation was beside itself with debate. New York's famed criminal lawyer James T. Brady sped to his friend's defense with a battery of assistants. Two hundred talesmen were examined before twelve unprejudiced jurymen could be found. "You are here to fix the price of the marriage bed!" roared Associate Defense Attorney John Graham, in a speech so packed with quotations from Othello, Judaic...
...LaGuardia Field a chaplain led a dozen wounded soldiers in prayer alongside the transport plane that had brought them from torn Europe. In New York harbor a police launch sped to investigate a rumor that had swept through the Wall Street crowds: a German submarine had surfaced, flying a white flag. What the harbor police found: a Navy vessel, with the sailors' Monday wash...
Across the Atlantic the story sped (British censors do not interfere with stories merely being relayed through London). In Manhattan, where Kennedy's story arrived at 9:27 a.m., top A.P. executives huddled for eight minutes at the cable desk, debating whether to send the bulletin on to the A.P.'s 2,500 clients. They considered the risks if the story didn't stand...
Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, working the Adriatic coast, captured Ferrara and Padua, "the city of millionaires." With the 56th (London) Division in the van they entered historic Venice. Other units sped on to block the Udine and Belluno escape routes through the Tirolean Alps...
...Bennett Clark or a Ham Fish. The change became marked at the Republican conference at Mackinac, where Vandenberg, once he was sure that G.O.P. internationalists had no intention of selling the U.S. down the river, found that actually he was not far away from their views. The change was sped by the private conferences which Vandenberg, as a member of a Foreign Relations subcommittee, had with Secretary of State Hull, and by the wholesale approval by the U.S. people of responsible internationalism. "What finally made me a fanatic," Vandenberg says, "was the robot bomb...