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Defense attorney Fred C. Scribner, arguing for the first of three motions of acquittal, said that the prosecution had not produced evidence of direct communication of any warning to leave the premises to any defendant. He said that Watson had an opportunity to give such a notice after the door chains were cut and he had entered the building, but did not. He argued that even if the prosecution need not prove that the defendants were aware of the warning, the warning must at least be made "in good faith" and in such a way that a reasonable person might...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A LIFE STORY by Carlos Baker. 697 pages. Scribner...
THOMAS WOLFE by Andrew Turnbull. 374 pages. Scribner...
Turnbull tries hard. Many people remember Wolfe (he died in 1938), and Turnbull has talked with scores of them. As a biographer (Scott Fitzgerald) who seems to be making a specialty of writing about Scribner's authors in books for Scribner, he has had access to all the "sources." His biography is just, but pedestrian; it only slightly enlarges on what other biographers, Wolfe's own letters, and his not yet forgotten presence make clear enough...
...SPANIARD AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS by Fernando D/az-P/a/a. 223 pages. Scribner...