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...When fishing history is writ, leave room for Edward Snow, who thought he caught a fish of 20 million years...
...live without war-if it will." Preamble & Purposes. The original charter drafted at Dumbarton Oaks by the U.S., Britain, Russia and China had no preamble, hardly a mention of justice, almost no hint of human aspirations. It was the lowest common denominator of Big Power concessions. The charter writ ten at San Francisco contains a significant but at present unenforceable bill of human rights. The equality of all states is solemnly affirmed, although the whole structure of the organization denies...
Asking that $1,500,000 bequeathed to the City of Providence, R. I., for the planting and cultivation of certain trees, be forfeited to the University, attorneys have brought a writ of mandamus against the city, stating that it has failed to meet the conditions of the will. In accordance with the will, it was said that the money should revert to Harvard for scholarships for Providence high school graduates...
Artillery fire had damaged several gravestones between Keats's and the pyramid of Caius Cestius, a stone's throw away. Other greats in the same cemetery: Shelley, Trelawny, John Addington Symonds. Keats's name goes unmentioned on his own gravestone ("Here lies one whose name was writ in water"), but is inscribed on that of his painter-friend Severn, buried by his side...
Wilby preferred to remain in Canada, refused to waive extradition. Last week he appealed for a writ of habeas corpus, lost. Lest Wilby's lawyers and the Canadian courts have a second thought about the case, the New York detectives hustled Wilby out of town, started for the States by way of roundabout Nanaimo. They were too slow. British Columbia's Attorney General ordered Wilby returned for a new appeal. Said the angry Attorney General: "I don't think any responsible United States official would countenance this hide & seek procedure...