AUTHORS QUARREL
PERSONALITIES EXCHANGED.
BIGELOW v. WELLS
COURT PROCEEDINGS STARTED
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.
Received Feb. 13, 10.56 a.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 12. The exchange of personalities between Mr. Poultuey Bigelow, an. American lecturer and author, and Mr. H G. Wells, the British author, lias taken a new turn with the announcement of Mr. Bigelow that he is starting a suit in London for 50,000 dollars damages on a charge of alleged slander against his adversary. In his recent book, “Seventy Summers,”' iMr. Bigelow likened the British novelist to “a, prosperous stockbroker.” Mr. AY ells replied with a vigorous article in the London papers. Mr. Bigelow states: “He called me a bore! How am I going to make a living as an after-dinner speaker .if I’m slandered by being called a b6re? He lost liis temper and he lias got to apologise.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 February 1926, Page 5
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