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...teacher of law and dean of Harvard Law School for more than a quarter of a century, Roscoe Pound was a leader of the lusty pack of lawyers who set about destroying the 19th Century image of the law as an inflexible and inviolate set of principles. "The law," Dean Pound said at the time-and still says-"is social engineering." But by the time he retired from Harvard (in 1947), Pound had discovered that some of his eager social engineers, discarding absolute values as the progressive educators had, seemed intent on scrapping the very foundation of U.S. jurisprudence along...
...first fortnight as U.S. Ambassador to India, ex-Adman Chester Bowles gave signs of being a revolution in diplomacy and a revelation to New Delhi. He got off to an auspicious start by forgetting to pack his striped pants and morning coat. For the formal presentation of his credentials to India's President Rajendra Prasad, Bowles borrowed a pair of suspenders from his public-affairs officer, and a morning coat (too tight) and striped trousers (too big) from the Italian ambassador...
When Hungarian-born Zsa Zsa Gabor refused to co-star with her husband Cinemactor George Sanders on the Tallulah Bankhead radio show (because the lines "would have made my marriage look ridiculous"), Sanders took the afternoon off to pack his bags and leave his Hollywood home. Said he: "My wife asked me to get out, and I am in the process of doing so. I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon." For reporters covering the spat, Zsa Zsa (rhymes with maharajah) had a simple statement: "A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because...
...hours in the theater, the picture recreates ancient Rome with massive splendor and lavish detail. Nero's court lolls midst pleasures and palaces. Massed legions march in triumph through crowd-choked avenues. Mobs flee the burning city and storm Nero's palace. Christian martyrs fall to a pack of lions, burn by the score at rows of stakes in the arena of the Circus Maximus. One of them, Ursus...
Back in his home town of St. Andrews (22 miles from Calais, Me.), Stuart's candid comments got a laugh from many townspeople. It was not quite so amusing to local customs men and Mounties, currently engaged in trying to stop the growing traffic in cigarettes (23? a pack in Maine; 46? in N.B.). There was no chance that the government would act on Stuart's tariff-toppling recommendations. But in a week when the cost-of-living index passed 190 for the first time in Canadian history, he had dramatized the soaring prices of consumer goods...