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...daughter, was contesting the will, charging that it had been obtained by "fraud and deceit" as Cissie Patterson was not of "sound mind" when she drafted it. (There was also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal papers might contain vital evidence in the case. He had reportedly made a record of all his conversations with Cissie Patterson. So the Times-Herald quickly got an order from the executrix, chartered a plane and flew two men to Clarksburg to get Porter's luggage...
...hard to contain one's anger when viewing the fuzzy projections of fuzzy minds and crude fingers which are forced upon a skeptical public by ... art critics, when the work of such able men as Norman Rockwell is sneered at as "commercial...
Showdown. New York City's new field is still short of ground facilities (it has only one makeshift administration building and two hangars), so the Authority did no more than try to contain the airlines' rebellion. It canceled the operating permits at La Guardia of such foreign lines as Peruvian International Airways, Scandinavian Airlines system, K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, Air France and Sabena (Belgian Airlines), in effect forcing them to accept its invitation to move to Idlewild. Domestic airlines which had their eyes on New Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal (20 minutes from Manhattan...
...persuasive powers of poetry got thumping recognition from Robinson Jeffers' publisher. Next month Jeffers' new book of verse would contain a cautious note-to-the-reader: "Random House feels compelled to go on the record with its disagreement over some of the political views expressed in this volume...
...they cannot contain, let them marry...