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Jefferson Davis, by Hudson Strode, tried to rescue the President of the Confederacy from the sour apple tree from which he has been so long suspended. In the first volume (another to come), Davis seemed to be treated with exaggerated sympathy, but the portrait of a young Southern gentleman came from intimate sources and was long overdue...
After duly stabbing herself to wind up a soaring performance in Madame Butterfly, Hell's-Kitchen-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (TIME, Nov. 21) strode offstage in Chicago's Civic Opera House, applause still caressing her ears. She fluttered straight into an ambush party of eight process servers, who were there to tag her with summonses in breach-of-contract suits brought against her by a Manhattan lawyer. Windmilling in outrage and trilling furiously in English and Italian, Grand Diva Callas erupted: "Get your hands off me! Don't touch me, don't touch me! Chicago...
...even finished his pudding when his date took his arm and suggested they leave. He ignored her scowl when he strode past the door which a girl was holding open for her friend. After bidding a farewell, he bid a hasty retreat to Hayes-Bick...
...News, a greater expenditure of energy has, unfortunately, produced almost as tepid results. The Great Tradition of News editorials has been to arouse controversy that will lead to fruitful exchange of opinion between the Chairman and student letter writers. The story is often told of the professor who strode angrily into class one day while archconservative William F. Buckley was News chairman...
Pinay had checked the run. Premier Faure strode into the Chamber and told the restless Deputies: "To criticize is not enough. Those who criticize must have another policy." To this challenge, the Deputies had no answer. Not even the Gaullists were recommending a return to all-out repression; not even the Socialists were objecting to the Faure program, only to the delays in carrying it out. With elections so near, nobody wanted either blame or credit for a different policy...