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Then Winston Churchill, the aging battler,*lifted everyone's eyes from domestic affairs to the mushroom-shaped cloud overhanging mankind. "I cannot help coming back," he said in Edinburgh, "to this idea of another talk with Soviet Russia on the highest level. It is not easy to see how things could be worsened by a parley at the summit...
...papers), testified: "The notion that I sit at my desk examining every piece of news as it comes in and saying 'publish this' or 'don't publish that' ... is too fantastic . . . [But] of course I am consulted and give decisions." Lord Beaverbrook, a lusty battler for free enterprise and Empire first, snapped: "I run my papers [Daily Express, Evening Standard] purely for the purpose of making propaganda ... On the few occasions when [my editors] have had different views on an Empire matter to myself, I talked them out of it." The commission also heard Lord...
...Beau was through as a battler-even if he wouldn't admit it. In the locker room after the fight, he muttered through swollen lips: "I'd like one more fight-I'd like to get Williams again." Beau's share of the gate - $13,671- wasn't much to retire on after his manager got through taking...
Died. Robert Lee Williams, 79, Oklahoma's first chief justice (1907-09), third governor (1915-19), longtime U.S. judge (1919-37); of diabetes and a heart ailment; in Sherman, Tex. "Fighting Bob," a rough-&-tumble courtroom battler, helped draft Oklahoma's constitution (1906-07), then dominated its legal scene until his retirement...
...World Federation of Trade Unions, was a consultant at the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Late in 1945 he headed a C.I.O. delegation which visited Moscow and Leningrad. In C.I.O. councils (he has been a top officer for eight years) he is a straight-talking battler against Communist influence in unions, preaches that Communist Party activities in this country are "a major barrier to true American-Russian understanding...