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...Laborites feel about Mao's show of force? There was no reliable word, partly because most of the tourists had signed up for articles with British newspapers and presumably were saving their best answers. But if Attlee felt any discomfiture, it did not deter him from subsequent toasts to the desirability of Sino-British fellowship...
...those to make up for any loss in Reynolds' earning power. Said the court: "Where it is established that a defendant was inspired by actual malice . . . the jury may award . . . punitive damages ... or 'spite money' ... Its purpose is punishment, and [the setting of] an example to deter repetition of the offense . . ." In the award, only $1 was compensating damages. All the rest was punitive damages-$100,000 against Pegler himself, $50,000 against the Hearst Corp., whose King Features syndicates Pegler, and $25,000 against Pegler's New York outlet, the Journal-American.* But, Pegler...
...there is something illusory about the millions of dollars received in investment return, and Cabot is the first to admit it. For one thing, the huge numbers sometimes deter would-be benefactors from giving to an institution which they think--mistakenly--does not need the money...
...young last-ditch Italian fascist living in exile across the Swiss border, had tried to peddle these letters to various publishers. None would bite, for they had been denounced as fakes and forgeries by everybody involved, including Winston Churchill and Alcide de Gasperi. But such denunciations did not deter wealthy Publisher Angelo Rizzoli, who is Italy's most unclassifiable political figure. Signer Rizzoli publishes Candido, a savagely satirical weekly edited by right-wing Novelist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camillo) Guareschi; Oggi, a slightly milder weekly with Monarchist politics; L'Europeo, which leans slightly left of center...
...compress this vast story into a popular film biography involves a challenge that might well deter Hollywood. On a less ambitious scale-and aiming to teach as much as to entertain-the Radio and Film Commission of the U.S. Methodist Church has produced John Wesley, a 77-minute "semidocumentary" in color. Made at cost ($200,000) by Britain's J. Arthur Rank, a zealous Methodist himself, it is "for use in the churches...