Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commoner named Winston Churchill. Last week, however, the Marl-boroughs were once again in the forefront of the news. In London, gossips linked the names of Princess Margaret and the 22-year-old Marquess of Blandford, heir of the tenth Duke. At Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, the tenth Duke of Maryborough, astonished dinner guests by twice pitching a raspberry high up to the great vaulted ceiling and catching it in his mouth as it fell...
...party's national committee to carry on the party's business. Where two or three were gathered together, that would be enough. This was a hoary Communist device, designed to give the leftists solid control of the party. The rules were gaveled through by Convention Chairman Albert Fitzgerald, president of the United Electric Workers, and round-faced puppet of the U.E.W.'s real bosses, Communist-line Julius Emspak and James Matles...
...Kappler's superiors, Field Marshal "Smiling Albert" Kesselring and Generals Kurt Maeltzer and Eberhard von Mackensen, were originally condemned to death by a British military court on similar charges, later had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment...
...Albert Einstein, delighted with Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik's book, Listening with the Third Ear, sat down and wrote the author a little mash note: "I have read your book with sincere admiration . . . I am of course merely a layman, but I have a natural scientific interest." Winston Churchill had also found a new enthusiasm. "Lately," he confided, "I have taken to farming in a modest way ... I think that if I had heard about it when I was young I probably should never have gone into politics...
...Albert ("Blabbermouth") Bates, 57, serving a life sentence for the 1933 kidnaping of Oklahoma Oilman Charles Urschel, died in Alcatraz prison without ever blabbing where he had hidden his $100,000 in ransom money...