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Angrily, the court ordered the answer stricken from the record. The long-sought hour of martyrdom was at hand. The entire defense, counsel and defendants, was on its feet, roaring and waving its arms at the court. Judge Medina hastily ordered the jury from the room. U.S. marshals (some of them rushed down from the Hiss-Chambers trial two floors above) closed in between the defense and Judge Medina, between the defense and the spectators. Said Judge Medina to Gates: "I now adjudge you guilty of a willful and deliberate contempt . . . You are to be remanded until you have purged...
Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, taking a hard look at his stricken countrymen, said: "His success . . . is almost entirely based on his personal appeal. To the English he is exotic, and since he is a foreigner who won't be around tomorrow, they let themselves be swept along by his personality. His appeal is emotional, and his openness and lack of shame are most welcome. He makes love to his audience...
...Amerika's clear, simple stories are told in terms of "average Americans," avoid controversial personalities and political issues that might roil the Kremlin-or Congress. Not long after Amerika had stirred up such a storm on Capitol Hill by suggesting that the Midwest was poor and drought-stricken, slim, brunette Editor Marion Sanders, 43, took over. Since then, Amerika has provoked no senatorial tempers. Welles-ley-educated Mrs. Sanders is a doctor's wife and mother of two college-age youngsters. She knows no Russian and has never visited the U.S.S.R.; Moscow cold-shouldered her request...
...when drunken French soldiers invaded Goethe's house, faithful Christiane defied them. Conscience-stricken and deeply impressed, Goethe rushed her to the church and made her his wife. When later asked by an admirer how he had fared in those critical days of invasion, Goethe instantly assumed his statuary expression: "I was like a man who from the height of a cliff surveys the raging sea. Though he cannot succor the shipwrecked, neither can he be reached by the tumultuous waters...
Princess Margaret, constantly ogled by crowds, reporters and detectives on her trip to Italy, was nonetheless boosting Anglo-Italian relations. "Her eyes," burbled a stricken newsman, "look ahead. They are the most beautiful things she has brought to Naples, grey and very tender, clear as the air of Capri...