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Youngest Ever. Long forgotten by all but avid devotees of Victoriana, Dilke and his scandal were recently and rather carelessly reconstructed in a melodrama (The Right Honourable Gentleman) that ran a year and a half in London and is now maintaining a precarious life on Broadway. The tragedy deserves more responsible treatment, and this it has been given by Roy Jenkins, a political historian who is Minister of Aviation in Britain's Labor government. After a study of all available evidence, some of it never before made public, Jenkins concludes that Dilke was framed and finished...
Like Kennedy, Lindsay is an avid yachtsman, an ex-Navy officer, a sometime Sunday touch-football player, a reader of Ian Fleming novels, the father of a son named John. Lindsay, too, is married to a handsome woman who attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn., and Vassar. Mary Lindsay, 37, has little else in common with Jackie Kennedy. Mother of four (Katherine, 14; Margaret, 11; Anne, 9; John Jr., 5), "Mare"-as John calls her-is more gregarious and much more at home in the jostle of politics than Jackie...
...Ruby's case was taken over by San Francisco's Melvin Belli, a lawyer avid to make history, who demanded total acquittal on grounds of insanity. Like some 25 other states, say the authors, Texas requires the defense to prove that an allegedly insane defendant did not know right from wrong at the time of his crime. Undaunted, Belli insisted that Ruby shot Oswald as the result of an extremely rare epileptic seizure called a "psychomotor variant...
...Church" says little that is worth saying in the Harvard community, even in the Harvard Jewish community. But Harvard students did the translating, and the Hillel Society understandably wishes to encourage such efforts. Publishing should be sufficient encouragement; reading is unnecessary. "The New Christians" will interest few except avid scholars of Russian history; "The Schema..."provides no information on the Ecumenical Council that conscientious readers of Newsweek don't already know...
...bell again a year later." For Italy's Egidio Costantini, a balding man in his 50s, this persistent bell ringing has opened the doors of some of the world's most renowned artists-Oskar Kokoschka, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Luis Fontana, Yves Klein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso. No avid autograph seeker nor voracious collector, Costantini is a contemporary Venetian visionary out to restore the grandeur that was glass four centuries ago (see color...