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...society where capital and able management have become essential to newspapers along with journalistic talent, many will still agree with Churchill, that the ultimate responsibility for the press rests with the newspaper and magazine owners. "They have the power not only of the press but of the SUP-press," says Churchill. As if by magic, rumpled, rambling Critic Churchill got additional ammunition to back the charge. Britain's biggest newsstand distributor, which is loudly denounced in Churchill's book, has refused to handle it, on grounds that it might be libelous*; the book lambastes almost every major London...
...quiet type when he is not playing literary lion for the public, stringy Author Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, was about to sup one evening with his true love, mousy Joy Stewart, 25, in his bohemian quarters in London's West End. Without warning, the door of the book-glutted flat was suddenly flung open and in burst Joy's enraged father. "Aha, Wilson! The game is up!" roared Accountant John Stewart, 58, brandishing a horsewhip. Beside Father Stewart stood his wife, bearing a sturdy umbrella, plus Joy's younger sister and brother. Confronting the steamed...
...English playwriting: the engines are reversed, the sentimental faucets turned full on. Writers, too, have need of others, of the comforting arms of the public; but the artist's independence of stance, his solitary, separate-table vision, is his one source of lasting power. For him not to sup alone is almost certainly to sup with the Devil...
...They are hungry]." They were so hungry that they were willing to sup with the devil...
...will attempt to make a major issue of falling income on the farm, but Republicans hope to steal the ball by coming forward with a pro gram to put more money in the farmers' pockets. The chances are against a return to high (90% of parity), rigid price sup ports as a general policy; the chances are excellent for the establishment of a soil-bank plan, under which farmers would get cash benefits for switching land from surplus to soil-building crops...