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...year 1559, direct, businesslike Queen Elizabeth, decided that something should be done to stop the boys of St. Clement Danes choir school from wandering all over the city. The boys must stay within the boundaries of their own parish, said brisk Queen Bess, and they must learn where those boundaries lay in the following manner...
LADY LOVE -- BROWN BOTTOM BESS, Chicago Footwarmers. Abyssmal...
Twentieth Century. She motors into town with her shopping list?sardines, bath salts, boots ? but hurries back to her country seat (same monastic manor) and sits on Queen Bess's chair, brushes her short hair with King James' silver brushes, bounces up and down on his sacrosanct...
Back to jail went Ben Bess, South Carolina's most conspicuous contemporary Negro. Ben Bess first went to jail for a 30-year term in 1915, on the testimony of a white-trash woman named Maude Collins who swore he had raped her. Last spring Ben Bess was pardoned by Governor Richards after Maude Collins had signed an affidavit saying her original testimony was false (TIME, June...
Indignation was widespread in South Carolina and Maude Collins heard that Governor Richards was wondering if she had not committed perjury in the first instance. Frightened, she retracted her retraction, said she had signed the affidavit without knowing what it said, in return for $50 from Ben Bess's wife. The Bess side explained that Maude Collins had refused to sign anything unless she got paid. But Circuit Court Judge W. H. Townsend last week decided that the $50 was bribery, that bribery "vitiates" all things, even a Governor's pardon...