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...your guests to the movies." Some of Barnes's curter notes were signed with the name Fidéle de Port Manech, his mongrel bitch. The general public crusty old Connoisseur Barnes dismissed as untutored "diversion seekers," just as objectionable when they gushed approval as when they expressed stubborn distaste...
...Belgians, he had adamantly, and often bravely, refused to take a back seat while his ministers ran the country. His willfulness had led him into many dark hours, the darkest of which was his surrender of the Belgian army to Hitler in 1940. In recent years, Leopold's stubborn refusal to give up the throne of which more than half his people felt he was no longer worthy deeply rent Belgium...
...after ten performances), Alec Guinness explained some of his ideas on staging in the Spectator: "The setting, a formal and rather bleak affair, I take full responsibility for. It was partly the result of reaction against permanent, semi-permanent and realistic sets in Shakespeare, and, above all, a stubborn dislike of the rostrum. Rostrums, apart from cluttering up the stage, tend to produce a one-foot-up, one-foot-down sort of acting which I find peculiarly dispiriting. I have very few conversations on the stairs in my own house...
...stifling heat (three spectators collapsed), Trabert beat Nakano, 6-4, 7-5, 6-0; Savitt beat Kumamaru, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Though the Japanese did not distinguish themselves on the slow courts at Louisville, U.S. tennis fans will get a chance to see their stubborn base-line play on the faster grass of the tennis circuit (Southampton, Orange, Newport and the Nationals at Longwood and Forest Hills). And Ichy is looking ahead. He figures that in another couple of years the younger Japanese players will be on a par with the U.S.'s best...
Without conscious malice, Mikki just about erased the Vaughns. Among Mikki's victims-as Ellen learns in playback sessions-were her stubborn father and brilliant elder brother. She hears the two in vicious argument over how best to exploit the machine's commercial possibilities, then grappling together on the ledge of the family's Manhattan penthouse, at last silent as they topple to their deaths. Casually, the unblinking Mikki goes on to expose the most shattering truth of all: the nice young gent who has been praising Ellen's pretty blue eyes is really trying...