AUTHORS’ EXCHANGE OF PERSONALITIES
BIG CLAIM FOR ALLEGED SLANDER. Vancouver, February 11. An exchange of personalities between Mr. Poultney Bigelow, the American lecturer and author, and Mr. H. G. Wells, the British author, has taken a new turn with the announcement by Mr. Bigelow that lie is starting a suit in London for 50,0f)0 dollars damages on a charge of slander agains'; his adversary. Tn a recent book, "Seventy Summers,” Mr. Bigelow likened the British novelist to “a prosperous stock broker,” to which Mr. Wells replied with a vigorous article in London papers. “He called me a bore. How am I going to make a living as an afterdinner speaker if I’m slandered by being called a bore, and lie has got to apologise!” said Mr. Bigelow.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 120, 15 February 1926, Page 9
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