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...Manhattan last week 1) called for the organization of an independent production unit solely concerned with plays for the road, 2) suggested an industry reserve fund to be built from a 10? bite on every ticket sold on the road, 3) sent Theatre Guild Director Lawrence Langner to plead with actors' agents that they persuade their clients to hit the road...
...United States of America versus Bernard Goldfine," droned the clerk in a Washington Federal Court. "You are charged with contempt of Congress. How do you wish to plead?" Rising from a front-row seat the man for whom life has become a nervous round of "the U.S. v." walked to the bench, announced a firm "Not guilty." Basis of the charges: 18 instances, during a hearing last summer of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (TIME, July 14 et seq.) in which the 68-year-old Boston millionaire and friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams refused to answer questions...
...adults who plead "Let's not get into a war" are unwittingly saying "war in their time...
Quarles, apparently sympathetic, told the Army's Brucker to plead his case to White House Scientific Adviser Dr. James Killian. The President in press conference tried to head off a williwaw by insisting that Glennan's move was only part of a "study" in which the President himself would make the final ruling. But Glennan, plowing on, returned to Brucker's office at week's end with a written confirmation of his decision...
Three men will appear in court today and plan to plead guilty to a charge of hurling a rock into a window of the Cafe Mozart at 12:30 a.m. yesterday morning...