Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father's Coat. First stop on their itinerary was London. The mayor, in a natty, brown-checked suit and a vivid yellow-striped tie, was unabashed to find his British welcomers all dressed up in formal attire. Downing a quick Scotch-on-the-rocks at London Airport, he gazed at the dense horizon of top hats and sighed. "I guess I'll have to buy one," he said. "I haven't worn a topper since last St. Patrick's Day parade." At a luncheon a few days later, Wagner was properly turned out in formal dress...
Boisterous old (67) Hugh Dalton submitted his resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and suggested that other oldsters do likewise. Emanuel Shinwell, 70, and William Whiteley, 72, longtime Labor whip, followed suit. So did schoolmasterly old (72) Chuter Ede, because he thought younger men needed experience in leadership...
...Hollywood TV film producer decided that high-spirited Actor John Barrymore Jr., 22, was acting too much like a chip off the late Great Profile, slapped a $55,-750 breach-of-contract suit on him for acting up while making a string of movies in England. The charges, similar to those made against Junior last August by a Connecticut summer theater: uncouth public squabbles with his wife Cara, insults to other actors, all-round misbehavior...
After a federal jury in Manhattan awarded Journalist Quentin Reynolds $175,001 in a libel suit against Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Hearst lawyers took their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Their argument: what Pegler had written about Reynolds (TIME, May 24, 1954, et seq.) was "innocuous and susceptible of innocent and harmless interpretations...
Should newspaper photographers be allowed to take pictures in courtrooms? Eighteen years ago the American Bar Association answered with a firm no. adopted Canon 35, banning cameras from courts. Fourteen states followed suit by officially making Canon 35 a part of their law; it was approved by the bar associations of close to a dozen other states. Frequent court decisions have upheld a judge's right to bar photographers from his court. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused even to hear an appeal from the Cleveland Press, whose photographers had been held in contempt for taking courtroom pictures...