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When Vivian Chamberlain, 34, died in Stockton, Calif, last week, she was the fourth of 14 siblings to be carried off by a mysterious, muscle-wasting disease. Vivian was 15 when she was stricken with what doctors believed to be muscular dystropny-a progressive wasting away of muscle power for which neither cause nor cure is known. She had gradually become disabled, spent her last two months in San Joaquin General Hospital. When Vivian the first ominous stiffening in her ankles, followed by weakness and loss of balance, one sister had already died. She lived to see another sister...
...other half of the Chamberlain brood-two sisters, five brothers, aged 20 to 39-all seem perfectly healthy...
...politically." He collected everything he could on Actor Hackett's tours. He scoured the libraries of the Allegheny region, checked with rare-book dealers. Finally a colleague gave him an idea: if the play appeared in London, it must have received the permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Tidwell had the Lord Chamberlain's files searched, at last found the clue he was looking for. The place that the play turned up: the British Museum, where it was listed under the name of the author whom Hackett hired to adapt it for the London stage...
...Thus, for the first time in history, two commoners in one government wear the Garter. Others, in past times: Walpole, Castlereagh, Palmerston, Balfour, Edward Grey, Neville Chamberlain...
...blasted Labor Party Chief Clement Attlee: "The whole effect [of his report on his trip to Red China] was that we can do business with Peking ... It is a sinister theme ... It is also a tempting theme ... It was the hope of the Foreign Office and also of Neville Chamberlain that both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia would destroy each other by their complementary antagonism . . . Kicking this dream around is like pretending that there are nice burglars and nasty ones...