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In retaliation Meyner has attacked Forbes's attempted elevation of Lloyd Marsh to the Republican state chairmanship. He has called Marsh a man who "borrowed $25,000 for that party from Joe Bozzo, an admitted confidant of such racketeers as Joe Adonis and the late Willie Moretti." In defense, Forbes...
Well aware of the dislike and distrust in which he was held by Victoria's subjects for most of his life, Albert himself was wisely self-effacing. "The position of Prince Consort requires that the husband should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife," he...
Three days later Bill Knowland took his candidacy out of the "possible" category. The Knowlands packed their bags, set off from their Oakland home for a two-month, 140-speech whistle-stopping "Report to the People of California." The report ranged from a terse analysis of world affairs (Russia, explained...
Died. Viscount Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting...
Treece muddles all the issues, but does his best to tell a good story, with all the required stabbings, sword fights, and assassinations. On his interpretation of Marlowe's theme and Holinshed's story, Edward is less the victim of his personality, his blindness to the faults of his favorites...