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...pulled out of Normanton station. Yorkshire, a little man with a greying, Chaplinesque mustache quietly took his seat. The other passengers, if they noticed him at all, certainly did not recognize Atomic Spy Alan Nunn May, for whose release over 30 reporters were at that moment waiting outside nearby Wakefield Prison (see PRESS...
Years later, British and U.S. counterespionage agents ran down the now familiar roster of traitors: Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Only then did the full significance of the atomic spy ring dawn on the free world. All this while, in Britain's Wakefield prison, Allan Nunn May had proved an exemplary prisoner, becoming a trusty and working as a librarian, and earning all the remission allowed by British law for good behavior. This week, after serving two-thirds of his time (six years eight months), Atomic Physicist Allan Nunn May was released, his debt...
When Jude the Obscure appeared, the Victorian public howled with stuck prudishness. "Jude the Obscene," cried one reviewer. The Bishop of Wakefield publicly burned his copy-only, snapped Hardy, because he could not burn the author. But Hardy was hurt more than he admitted. Even before Jude, he had written in his journal: "If this sort of thing continues, no more novel-writing...
...banner line in someone's second section. Those were the good old days. Since then Abner Doubleday's pleasant pastime has been attenuated into an eight-months monster, devouring two-thirds of the year and thousands of tons of newsprint, bleating out paragraphs about the weight of Dick Wakefield's spikes and the quality of the umpiring in the Sally League...
Seniors--Dustin Maholn Burke, Athol, Mass; Donald Joseph Case, Belmont, Mass.; Frederick Ernst Drill, Minneapolis, Minn.; William Bainbridge Frothingham. Jr., Medfield, Mass; William David Hoaley, Jr., Wakefield, Mass.; John Walter Hickey, Wakefield, Mass.; John Leeman Lewis, Jr., Austin, Texas; Carroll Martin Lowenstein, Malden, Mass.; Thomas William Ossman, Rockville Center, N. Y.; Fred Aaron Ravreby, Brookline, Mass.; Joseph Herbert Shaw, Northville, Mich.; Robert Huntley Thompson, Highland Park, III.; Warren Donald Wylie, Chelmsford, Mass...