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...both big business and big labor will be under continuous pressure from the White House to conform their price and wage policies to the "public interest"-however that may be denned by the Government at the time. If so, the Administration maybe letting itself in for repeated off-the-cuff rulings that can hardly fail in the long run to prove contradictory, chaotic or ineffectual...
...private code bids already phoned in and the reserve price below which Maugham would not sell. From his opening announcement-"Lot No. 1. Roderick O'Conor's Still Life with Vegetables"-he presided over the sale without a flicker of nervousness, apart from shooting a cuff now and then. The 35 paintings went for $1,466,864, including $244,000-the highest price ever paid at auction for a living artist-for a Picasso curiosity that showed The Death of Harlequin on one side and Woman Seated in a Garden on the other. In the last five years...
Late Regret. It is difficult to see how. Their religious element is mostly discussion of erudite Anglican minutiae and spiritual snobbisms that are more likely to chill the unconverted than warm them. They are loaded with off-the-cuff comments that Rose Macaulay herself would have been distressed to see in print. And it is doubtful that many sinners will be changed by her moving repentance of her life's love: "I told you once that I couldn't really regret the past. But now I do regret it, very much . . . Not all the long years of happiness...
...house had a green bath in the attic, but he had not signed the guest register and could find no witness who could positively remember having seen him there. On his way to Liverpool, Hanratty claimed, he had traveled in a train compartment with a man who wore gold cuff links initialed with the letter E. Despite appeals from the defense, no E came forward to testify...
...cries of protest from foes of capital punishment, who believed that if Hanratty with his history of mental illness, had pleaded "guilty, but insane," he would have escaped the gallows. Execution was set for March 7, pending appeal-or the last-minute appearance of the man with the gold cuff links...