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...shortly introduce legislation creating lifetime peerages for both men and women. Such a law, if passed, would for the first time in history plunk "lady lords" down beside gentleman lords in Britain's Upper House.* This stratospheric feminist victory was hailed by "delighted" Virginia-born Lady Astor, 78, bodkin-tongued widow of a viscount and first woman to sit in the House of Commons. With due appreciation to the Queen, Nancy Astor said: "I hope they will create me a lifetime peeress...
...spirit than any previous try at his biography. The subject was certainly no cinch. The actor liked to assure his rare interviewers: "Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.'' In a large sense, that was so. There was no Chaney. but there was a solitary fisherman, a bodkin-eyed amateur movie cameraman, a proficient wigmaker, a talented musician. Hollywood's hungriest reader-and always, the actor testing his disguises. One morning, got up as a Chinese laundryman, Chaney boarded a Los Angeles trolley, deliberately courted a quarrel with the conductor and, after convincing himself that...
Acquitted last April on charges of fatally drugging an eccentric lady patient who had willed him a Rolls-Royce and a chest of silverware, Dr. John Bodkin Adams last week pleaded guilty to 14 lesser charges. Among them: attempting to conceal two bottles of morphine; obstructing an officer seeking to enforce the Dangerous Drugs Act; forging other doctors' names to National Health Service prescriptions; falsely stating on three cremation certificates that he had no pecuniary interest in the patients' deaths. Total fines: ?2,400 ($6,720). Dr. Adams, 58, wrote out a check for it all, and returned...
Proposed costume for Actress Jayne Mansfield playing the Prince of Denmark [June 24]: "black tights, bare bodkin." Bodkin threw me for a loop, so I referred to my faithful dictionary, which states that a bodkin is "an instrument for drawing tape through a hem, a pointed instrument . . . a pin for fastening the hair." Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin...
...brushed aside objections that she is too, too solidly fleshed for tragedy, announced that she was memorizing Hamlet's soliloquies, would follow the examples of Actresses Siobhan McKenna and Sarah Bernhardt by playing the Prince of Denmark, possibly on television. Proposed costume for Actress Mansfield: black tights, bare bodkin...