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...best parts of The Buccaneers are its glimpses of raucous and pretentious Gilded Age society in New York, where social maneuvers interweave with Wall Street plots and humble wives of new millionaires squat uneasily on upholstered fortunes. Although Editor Gaillard Lapsley compares scenes in The Buccaneers to passages in Proust, the comparison only calls attention to Mrs. Wharton's limitations: brilliant chapters like those laid in Saratoga fade out quickly, to be followed by weary passages scarcely superior to the average fiction in women's magazines...
...Switzerland, France's handsome, six-foot, 24-year-old Bonapartist Pretender, His Imperial Highness Prince Louis Napoleon† commonly flings some such ringing piece of Corsican bravado as "My name is the most glorious guarantee France has ever had of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity!" Because the original, short, squat Napoleon smashed the First Republic of France, and the second Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic, the Third Republic has always up to now refused to do homage to L'Empereur. Last week the Bonapartist cause was finally considered so dead, the Pretender so harmless, that at Ajaccio in Corsica...
Seven-year-old Scophony is the lusty baby of British television. Guided by squat, bespectacled Russian-refugee Sagall, it weathered five years of bailiff dodging, grew from a room and a half in Soho to $1,050,000 capitalization, achieved financial association with Odeon. Competitor in large-screen television is Baird Television Ltd. partly owned by Gaumont-British Picture Corp., Ltd. They report several orders for theatre television screens, do not specify which theatres, might offer BBC loans of Gaumont-British stars in exchange for programs...
Defense Attorney Dawson complained of cramp. He asked Judge Ford to transfer the trial to a larger courtroom at Lexington, where the defendants would not have to squat behind the jury box. Agitated, Mr. Dawson pointed out that the jurors could not view his clients, among whom were such prominent Harlan citizens as Coal Operators Robert W. Creech, Elmer Hall, Bryan Whitfield. At this time, Mr. Dawson did not mention that his clients also included such characters as ex-Deputy Frank White, who, at the La Follette hearings, was accused of trying to murder ex-Deputy (and codefendant) Hugh Taylor...
Last week, dramatically affirming that the Plan still "represents my highest ideals," Strongman Batista suddenly announced that further legislation on it would be "suspended" until after the Presidential elections early next year. Reason for this unexpected move: squat, peasant-born Batista.has engineered the seating of five men in the Presidential chair and now hankers to fill the position himself. The Plan, criticized by a good many Cubans as an attempt to regiment all phases of their national life, is regarded by Boss Batista as too much of a controversial issue to push at the time of an election...