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...editor he was a brilliant bully. Wells once confessed that he made him feel like a bankrupt undertaker; Classicist Middleton Murry cowered as Harris roared: "God's great fist! You, Murry, wrote this drivel about Paradise Lost?" But Harris befriended Oscar Wilde-though he did not share Oscar's homosexual bent-and the friendship bolstered his social success. It was a time when conversation was still considered a fine art, and Wilde and Harris were two of the greatest conversational artists in London, sought by hostesses for the wit and charm of their anecdotage...
...that John Foster Dulles played quite so villainous a role as Eden suggested. ("In the course of my contacts with him I found him a man of great parts and integrity.") But with a condescension toward U.S. statesmanship worthy of the British Foreign Office of 50 years ago, Drew Middleton, London bureau chief for the New York Times, suggested in a review in the Times of London that Eden's difficulties with Dulles were partly caused by Dulles' "resentment" of "Eden's easy mastery of the intricacies of international diplomacy...
...Nick Adams, Dean Stockwell gave the impression that he had learned The Method at Hotchkiss, but Dane Clark and Robert Middleton were smooth and competent as the killers, and so was Ray Walston as the frightened owner of the lunchroom in which the killers reveal their plot. Beyond the brief Hemingway dialogue, the show was distinguished only by the Swedish fighter. In a flashback to a Chicago gym, where he was coached in the art of taking a dive, and in the scene from the original, in which he decided that he is "through with all that running" from death...
...that he can move around." Said Ike, by his own account: "You send the man and I will send him to battle in a litter because he can do better that way than most people I know." Officer identified subsequently by the White House: Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, who led Eisenhower's VIII Corps in the Battle of the Bulge, is now president of Louisiana State University...
Says Levi McGeorge, pastor of the Closplint Church of God: "I've been preachin' the gospel for 25 years, and I've never seen a time so bad." Adds 63-year-old Ben Middleton, a third-generation Harlan resident and a power in county Republican politics: "I watched this county build up, and now I'm awatchin' it go down. I don't see no hope...