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...crowded House of Commons gave fascinated attention, last week, to plump, ruddy-cheeked Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, shrewdly audacious Chancellor of Great Britain's Exchequer...
...Scene. In his last harangue to the jury, Lawyer Littleton quoted Shakespeare on the subject of "a good name" until he even made Oilman Sinclair snuffle and dab his eyes. Sinclair grasped Lawyer Littleton's plump hand when he sat down. Sinclair's wife and mother sobbed softly. When the jury returned from its deliberations, Sinclair stood up. Littleton remained seated. The Sinclair ladies had withdrawn to a corridor...
...most spectacular; this brought the total for the entire sale to $2,297,763, the largest amount ever returned at a U. S. art auction. The most notable piece purchased on the last afternoon was a small marble bust by Jean Antoine Houdon; the head was that of a plump and imperious baby girl, the daughter of the artist. The woman who got the bust was later discovered to be a buyer for M. Knoedler & Co., who in turn were probably buying for Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness...
Clarence Walker Barron, 72, plump publisher of The Wall Street Journal, was sued for slander for $100,000 by Princess Margaret Ghika of Rumania, now a resident of Manhattan. She claims that Mr. Barron called her "a spy ... a very dangerous woman" at a dinner party at his home in Cohasset, Mass., last August...
...Lawyers. Lawyer Wright, first spokesman for the defense, is not Sinclair's chief council. That office is still held by Martin W. Littleton, the plump, fastidious, white-wooled Manhattanite to whom Senator Walsh lately suggested that he might well resign since his client had deceived him about important particulars of the case before the last trial. Lawyer Littleton's reply to Senator Walsh was: "Meddlesome Matties!" If it is true that Sinclair tried to get Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, the man who got Oilman Doheny acquitted, to replace Lawyer Littleton this time, Lawyer Littleton gave no sign...