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What then limits the corporation? Berle goes back to William the Conqueror's ancestor Duke Rollo, who, along with his successors in Normandy and England, was about as absolute a wielder of power as political history knows. Yet Rollo, says legend, was impelled to proclaim that any subject who felt aggrieved could appeal to him by crying "Ha Rollo." This appeal to "the conscience of the King" became the foundation of liberties as the Western world knows them...
Died. Frank Erne (rhymes with churny), 79, onetime lightweight (1899-1902) boxing champion, conqueror in 1900 of the immortal Joe Gans (to whom he lost the crown in a rematch that ended with a first-round, one-punch knockout), in recent years the oldest living ex-champion; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
BRIDE OF THE CONQUEROR, by Hartzell Spence (336 pp.; Random House;$3.95). When rich, beautiful Doña Eloisa Marta Maria del Cristofora Leovigilda Canillejas arrives in the New World, every Conquistador bachelor in Peru is waiting and many a married gallant is ready to murder his wife to possess her. Pizarro, the villainous governor, gazes down her bodice as she curtsies to him and his kisses are "like hot irons." But Dona Eloisa side steps. In the end, Pizarro mounts the scaffold and Dona Eloisa gets the man she really loves...
Founded in 1843 by France's colonial conqueror, Marechal Thomas-Robert Bugeaud de La Piconnerie, Orleansville was a dusty, bustling trade center of 32,500, built on the site of an ancient Roman city. Orleansville's newest building, not completed by last week, was a nine-story apartment house. At 1 :07 on the morning the earthquake struck, 25 construction workers were sleeping peacefully on the unfinished third floor of the new building. Less than a minute later, as the whole town awoke to a nightmare, building and workers together collapsed in a heap like a house...
...prize because "the bear always wins and never asks for money," 3) nobly dissuaded outraged circus spectators from burning down the tent, 4) attached the circus' box office for the amount of the prize, 5) stood a chance of becoming Bobo's owner as well as conqueror...