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...reason for the raid was simple. He had "loaned" Radio City's transmitter to its owner, Reginald Calvert, 37, a sometime hairdresser, clarinetist, popcorn manufacturer and promoter, and Calvert was planning to sell the whole station to a syndicate. Smedley had no way of suing, since Radio City was located twelve miles out in international waters for the express purpose of avoiding British jurisdiction. Smedley figured, as he later told police, that "possession is ten-tenths...
...following night, Calvert drove up for a chat with Smedley at Smedley's 17th century, thatched country cottage 40 miles north of London. At 2:40 a.m., Smedley summoned police. There lay Calvert, dead of a 12-gauge-shotgun blast in the chest. Police arrested Smed ley, who, though admitting the raid, pleaded innocent to the murder...
After that, the Bonapartes seem to have disappeared. In all branches of the family, almost all the children came up girls. The last of the American line, a descendant of Fifi and Betsy Patterson named Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, achieved some prominence as a Man of Distinction in the Calvert whisky ads, but he died in 1945 of injuries sustained in Central Park, where he tripped over the leash of his wife's dog. The only male Bonapartes alive today are a 16-year-old boy (Charles Napoleon Bonaparte) and his 52-year-old father (Napoleon Louis Jerome Victor Bonaparte...
...identify" with the top rock-'n'-roll singers, most of whom are positively ancient adolescents. As a result, the promoters are busy developing a new stable of pre-teen rockers. Recently, Smash Records signed a four-year contract with three Ohio brothers, the Hornets-Guitarists Greg Calvert, 12, and Gary, 11, and Drummer Steve, 6. Their first record release will be Patty Girl...
Particularly significant, Calvert says, has been the shift toward international careers. Only 8% of the 5,000 Volunteers were interested in long-range careers overseas when they entered the Peace Corps. But almost one-third had this aim when they completed service, he says...