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...prove that Sir Francis used this cipher in writing the plays. Through an elaborate series of manipulations involving key page numbers, word counts and "root numbers," Donnelly finally "deciphered" such statements as "Seas ill (Cecil) said that More low (Marlowe) or Shak'st spurre (Shakespeare) never writ a word of them," convinced himself that Bacon had written the plays to conceal "the inner history of his times, in cipher." But no sooner had Donnelly published his theory than another scholar used his methods to produce the message: "Master Will I Am Shak'st spurre writ the play...
Ghana's motto, writ large on the gleaming white Independence Arch that overlooks the Atlantic in Accra, is "Freedom and Justice." Last week, scarcely six months after Ghana, under Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah (Lincoln University, Pa. '39), became a free nation amid high hopes, both freedom and justice seemed to be in retreat...
...Supreme Court of the U.S. issued a peremptory writ of mandamus to Pennsylvania in the thundering words of Chief Justice John Marshall: If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the U.S. and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals...
...into the car and drove off. Later, a Belfast barrister turned up at Dungulph Castle with Sheila's terms for coming back: Cloney must sell the farm, move to Canada or Australia, agree to let the children be raised as Protestants. Cloney got a conditional order for a writ of habeas corpus for his children's return, and waited...
...many pious German devotees of Johann Sebastian Bach, the singing of the St. Thomas Church Choir in Leipzig, East Germany, is the voice of Holy Writ. The choir school, attached to Leipzig's famed Evangelical Lutheran Thomaskirche, proudly points to J. S. Bach's service as its cantor for 27 years (1723 to 1750), has long constituted itself chief guardian of his music. Last week the 80-boy choir made a sortie from behind the Iron Curtain. Occasion: the Bach Festival at Ansbach, West Germany. Critical verdict: St. Thomas' parade-drilled ten-to-18-year olds...