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When the clerk told him the three-day waiting period might be waived, he was delighted. He hurried Mildred to the chambers of Superior Judge Henry Clay Agnew and was given a pink slip. "Is that all?" asked the Earl, obviously rather astounded. "That's all," said the judge. Beaming, the Earl left, told newsmen he was now married, and departed with Mildred for a Tacoma motel which had been chosen as the type of nuptial chamber most suitable for one in the Earl's financial condition. "Her ladyship hasn't enough money for hotels," he explained...
Besides gleanings for the curious, there was some good art: early genre studies by Winslow Homer, William Glackens' moveing paintings of the Spanish-American War, and Thomas Eakins' The Agnew Clinic, 1889, a monumental study of an operation in an early hospital. There was even a small painting by the great French impressionist, Edgar Degas, of 19th Century Cotton Merchants. But the show's main appeal was to the ordinary American with a warm heart and a taste for a good story. It was a good bet that by the time the Corcoran closed its big cavalcade...
...Almost unnoticed by the numbed consumer, meat prices crawled to an alltime high. In New York City last week the average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. ¶Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down...
...Class of 1941: Edward Agnew Callanan Jr., John Wilbur Keller...
Winston Churchill cabled Captain Agnew congratulations. King George VI named him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for his deed, unprecedented in World War II: finding and destroying an entire convoy...