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CALL THE NEXT WITNESS - Philip Woodruff-Harcourf, Brace...
Call the Next Witness reports how Gopal Singh was brought to "justice." Philip Woodruff (the pseudonym of a Briton who has worked for many years in India) never tells his readers whether Gopal Singh actually did shoot his wife. But he gives them an exciting description of the religious, tribal, political and human intricacies that make Indian legal procedure as cryptic as the Indian rope trick. They also make Call the Next Witness one of the year's most striking and unusual novels...
Husky, 54-year-old Major General Roscoe B. Woodruff's 24th Division troops stormed into Davao, capital of Mindanao and last large Philippine city in Japanese hands, after one of the toughest marches in Pacific annals-more than 140 miles in 17 days from the Parang landing beach. They found most of the Japanese army gone, the elaborate defenses abandoned. All the wicked-looking pillboxes had faced seaward-the wrong...
...President added that, in his opinion, this was no longer a question which should divide Democrats and Republicans. But he promptly heard from two Republicans. Minnesota's Representative Harold Knutson declared that the President's proposal would close many a U.S. factory. Michigan's Roy O. Woodruff called for defeat of the entire reciprocal trade program. Congress set itself for long debate...
...Twelfth Term. But as this year's campaign grew hot, all sorts of political land mines started blowing up around Ed Woodruff. The Association of Commerce appointed a committee to investigate vice, and the committee called on the State's Attorney, who in turn shouted for a grand jury. The Army complained about Peoria's prostitutes and the FBI made a white-slave raid. All this was bad enough. But when Peoria discovered that gamblers, barmen and madams were showing interest in the reform candidate, it decided that Ed Woodruff had lost his steam. Last week Peoria...