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Reuther: Are you calling me a liar...
...Senators that there has not been too great evidence he has been able to provide for himself." In another outburst of irritation Morse repudiated Majority Leader Mansfield and Whip Humphrey ("They are not my majority leader and my whip"), and all but called gentle, patient Mike Mansfield a liar...
Died. Richard Aldington, 70, controversial British biographer whose 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry inquired so deeply into the legends surrounding T. E. Lawrence, the World War I hero (in Aldington's view he was a liar and a fraud), that it brought cries of outraged protest from Lawrence fans the world over; of a heart attack; in Sury-en-Vaux, France. An expatriate who spent most of his life in France and Italy, Aldington wrote more than 40 books, including his brilliantly angry look back at World War I, Death of a Hero...
...Barbour Bantam"), campaigned on a segregationist platform that seemed extreme even by Alabama standards. The federal judiciary, he claimed, is "lousy and irresponsible." U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., who once ordered voting records turned over to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, was an "integrating, scalawagging, carpetbagging liar." Promising that he would refuse to obey "any order to mix races in our schools," Wallace offered to "stand in the schoolhouse door," and, if need be, go to jail before permitting integration. To suggestions that his position might be too strong for the voters to stomach, Wallace retorted...
...moonstruck liar in a life of writing is hardly enough. The rest of what Author Barnes has written offers little but annoying, calculated imprecisions ("her wide distilling mouth") and somber oboe passages. "No, I don't feel horror," someone says. "Horror must include conflict, and I have none; I am alien to life, I am lost in still water." So, most of the time, is Author Barnes. And even Nightwood suffers from that most irritating offense of difficult writing-the mysterioso effect that hides no mystery, the locked box with nothing...