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...showgirl Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner Easton, onetime Virginia belle, has made a career of collecting diamonds and indulgent husbands. Caught sailing for Europe last week with a middle-aged chap, altar-prone Peggy, first married in 1912 and still on the sunny side of 70, confessed that her companion is No. 6 and that for the past three years she has been Mrs. Andrew C. Meyer. Manhattan Banker Meyer, a bachelor until Peggy landed him, smiled fearlessly while his wife did most of the talking...
...best sort of chap to have around we've ever seen," said an Israeli negotiator. "The entire world will feel a sense of relief because of his efforts," proclaimed Cairo's newspaper Al Akhbar...
Bulwarked on the speakers' platform by an ex-missionary who had spent 50 months in a Red Chinese prison camp, Muggeridge asked his Manchester audience: "Will an amiable chap in Downing...
...things seemed, even for Clochemerle, to have reached a sorry pass. But the village women were willing to concede that a widow's life was not much fun, and that once the children were baptized they would be as good Christians as any. As for Tistin-well, a chap like that, with so much time on his hands...
Reginald, conceded that Douglas "had no personal knowledge as to the true facts." Said aggrieved Sir Reginald: "This chap goes around and collects bazaar gossip and puts it in his books as the truth...