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...traveling Writer Louis Adamic sent a complimentary copy of his book, Dinner at the White House (Harper), returned the compliment by suing Adamic and the publisher for libel. He also demanded that the book be taken off the stands. Adamic, in describing fellow diner Churchill, had written of his "stubborn cranium," had called him "simultaneously honest and dishonest," "a very great leader and . . . also evil," and noted "the eyes and mouth which were shrewd, ruthless, unscrupulous," but just what Churchill considered libelous was not made public. The amount of damages was left up to the jury...
...lobby of the Manchester Guardian's smoke-grimed Victorian building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
...case of the dead composer looks like suicide, but Detective Raft knows better. First, his stubborn talk of murder gets him bounced from the Homicide Squad. Then his continued detecting, without pay, gets him shadowed by a sinister fat man, beaten up, involved with an enigmatic lady (Lynn Bari) and eventually hunted by the cops...
...convention. But Education Minister Thomas Derrig held firm. "The government," he said, "will not be coerced." Prime Minister de Valera threatened to lock out rural teachers who, by giving up a tenth of their salaries, were maintaining the Dublin strikers at nine-tenths of their pre-strike pay level. Stubborn De Valera was so wroth that he was reported pondering a general election on the strike issue...
...position is] stubborn and inflexible. [He] is unable to distinguish the fundamental critical issues from their purely procedural aspects." Wallace would not be intimidated, he said. He would "leave it to the good judgment of the American people" whether he should have signed the retraction...