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...some 500 motions for a mistrial or a directed verdict. The testimony had already run to 3,000,000 words; the Government had spent $65,000, introduced but 39 of a contemplated 200 witnesses. One defendant had died. Seven lawyers had been fined a total of $1,220 for contempt...
...played the lead (1939) in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, took umbrage at Playwright Hellman's comment in Moscow: "An actor doesn't make much difference to the play" (TIME, Dec. 4). Quoth Miss Bankhead: "I loathe Lillian. ... A remark like hers is beneath the contempt of an actor. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'd like to see what some of her plays would be like with a second-rate cast. ... Of course, she's really a wonderful playwright, and a good play that has a good...
...heroism of our people, their self-sacrifice, their contempt for death - this is the main theme. This is truth...
...Ornito in Italy Sir Walter laboriously helped a badly wounded colonel, far bigger than himself, across a thousand yards of rocky ground under heavy fire to an aid station. At the islands of Solta, Mljet and Braĉ off the Dalmatian coast his "utter contempt for artillery and mortar fire had a very valuable and steadying effect and won for him the respect and devotion of the men of the Commandos" -as well it might. Heirless Sir Walter was old enough to be their grandfather...
...Open Contempt. Why had the bombers not made use of nearby Russian bases for delivering supplies in Warsaw, or why Bad the Russians themselves not given air supply to the Bor force? The answer was not immediately forthcoming but Moscow did have something to say about the politics of the situation. The Warsaw rebels, said Pravda, had been "foully deceived by a group of adventurous and political speculators of London emigré governments...