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Acting on legal advice that Parkhurst's civil right's were being violated, the CRIMSON prepared to petition the Federal District Court for a writ of permission to interrogate Parkhurst...
...movie tiptoes as respectfully close behind Maugham's 90-day wonder* as if it were stalking Holy Writ. Tyrone Power, back in Hollywood after 3½ years as a marine, is the introspective young man who returns from World War I full of questions about the spiritual meaning of life. Rather than marry Miss Tierney and settle down to bond-selling in the fleshpots of Chicago, he runs off to Paris to examine his troubled soul. Miss Tierney, plainly a non-spiritual type, sullenly marries wealthy John Payne and has a couple of daughters, but still yearns for Tyrone...
...first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit. Its heroes include Moses (whose laws, says Author Reynolds, were based less on divine sanction than on pamphlets issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Health); Elizabethan Sir John Harington, the inventor of the water-closet ("his name [is] writ in water"), and Victorian Sir Edwin Chadwick (he popularized glazed earthenware drains...
...cigar-fogged suite in Washington's Shoreham Hotel, negotiators for the nation's soft-coal operators drooped dejectedly. For a weary month they had failed to lure labor's one-man theater into writ-fag a new contract for his United Mine Workers. Now the nation was living on stored coal. And now, because his only specific demand (for a miners' health & welfare fund) had been turned down, Lewis was about to halt even the pretense of negotiation. Balefully he intoned...
...rdoba police ignored a writ of habeas corpus, shipped a college president off for Buenos Aires by train. Furious, the judge who had granted the writ overtook the train in a car, had the prisoner freed. In Buenos Aires, a Radical Party leader locked the arresting officer in a bathroom...