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Phinney tried to make it clear to "those jurors of the Catholic faith" that there is no inconsistency between church law and New Hampshire law on the matter of killing. Altogether, 70 veniremen were examined; Justice Harold E. Wescott excused 34 for cause; the defense used 17 peremptory challenges, the prosecution seven. From heavily Roman Catholic (60%) Manchester, justice finally settled on a jury which included nine Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Similar to . . . Murder | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Bloom's cadavers have not sold as well as his other work, but he is optimistic about the eventual market, after the first shock wears off. One customer has been Author Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens), who bought an amputated leg with a gangrenous foot, hung it on his dining-room wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Pessimistic View | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...years, schoolboys have known him as co-editor of Moody & Lovett's A History of English Literature. The roll of his students who made the grade as professional writers reads like a partial Who's Who of U.S. authors. Some of them: John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Vardis Fisher, Harry Hansen, Helen Hull, Janet Planner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Liberal to a Fault | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage batted about by Authors Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and Charles Rolo (Wingate's Raiders) and by Critic John Mason Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain examined by a strange trio of writers: Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend); Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and PM's Max Lerner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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