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Yates's mother, Elizabeth Brunton Yates, was Dickens' favorite actress. Yates, who was born in 1831, was a clerk in the General Post Office when he turned to spare time journalism in 1852. He wrote for Chambers' Journal, the Daily News and Dickens' Household Words, meanwhile trying to persuade London newspapers to let him do a gossip column for them. In 1855 a new paper called the Illustrated Times let him try this new experiment in journalism. It was so successful that within three years Yates was invited to edit a new paper, Town Talk...
...Algernon George de Vere Capell, bald, pipe-puffing 66-year-old eighth Earl of Essex, was taken slightly aback last week when a Seattle marriage-license clerk told him that he would have to wait three days before getting hitched. The Earl's bride-to-be, 37-year-old, New York-born Mildred Carlson, had come back to the U.S. from Australia to become his third wife, and he was naturally impatient to get the details concluded-he was short of dollars and planned to travel on Mildred's funds until he got to Bermuda and a rapprochement...
...When the clerk told him the three-day waiting period might be waived, he was delighted. He hurried Mildred to the chambers of Superior Judge Henry Clay Agnew and was given a pink slip. "Is that all?" asked the Earl, obviously rather astounded. "That's all," said the judge. Beaming, the Earl left, told newsmen he was now married, and departed with Mildred for a Tacoma motel which had been chosen as the type of nuptial chamber most suitable for one in the Earl's financial condition. "Her ladyship hasn't enough money for hotels," he explained...
...Gleeson limited himself to a dispassionate summation of the prisoner's career as a Soviet agent. In the light of the week's news, it was a flesh-creeping tale of how Gold had acted as courier between British Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs and a Soviet consulate clerk named Anatoli Antonovich Yakovlev. Fuchs had been privy to the deepest U.S. atom secrets, and Gold had carried a treasure of horror in his soft hands...
...hadn't kept a sense of humor, as you all should when it's your turn to face those twelve people in the little box, I would have been a clerk to this...