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...from the locale of this British parlor farce, Wilson's estranged wife deplored Mr. Stewart's stern tactics though not his aims: "When Colin is threatened, he only becomes more obstinate. I have felt like horsewhipping Colin myself sometimes." The strife-torn saga was not concluded at week's end. After abandoning his. Netting Hill Gate lodgings, Outsider Wilson and the heedless Joy were reported bound for America, where Wilson hopes to get a divorce...
...Many reported incidents of violence between Negro and white students have proved totally false. One irate grandmother, for instance, declared that a Negro boy had slashed her granddaughter's dress with a knife, had to back down when she found that the girl had torn her clothes while playing during recess, with no Negro boys around. Though there have been student fights and parental protests, says Hansen, none have amounted to much...
...seven years as a newspaperman in Northern cities and lost an eye, a wife and all stomach for his job. He heads back to his father's Tennessee valley farm to root himself in the pieties of nature, kinsmen, and feudal loyalties from which he feels he was torn by anonymous city dwelling. But in the bustling regional ferment to which Duncan returns, his attitudes seem romantic, antisocial and outmoded. The powerful dramatic irony of The Innocent is that its hero seeks serenity and is driven to violence, strives for communion of spirit and is hunted down...
...Long Embarrassment. For the U.S., torn between its friendship for France and its post-Suez vocation of winning Arab-Asian friendship, the debate was one long embarrassment. But when the chips were down the U.S. lined up foursquare behind France. The U.S. delegation, announced Henry Cabot Lodge, would oppose not only the 18-power resolution but all other proposals "which we believe constitute intervention in matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of France...
Portly John Jacob Astor, 44, a fur trader by ancestry and a fur giver by inclination, appealed to a Manhattan court for rescue from his mixup. Torn between a dubious Mexican divorce from Gertrude, Wife No. 2, and a messy Florida separation from Dolly, Wife No. 3, J.J. begged to learn some legal answers to some turgid questions: 1) If he decides to kiss and make up, which woman is his lawful wife? 2) When he labors through his upcoming income-tax return, should he file jointly with Gert or Dolly? 3) If he were to die before...