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...presence at opening-day rites of the 14th annual New York-Is-a-Summer-Festival festival. Bubbly high spot of the ceremony was to be the christening of the good ship Festival Queen, a commercial sightseeing barge borrowed for the day. On hand to do the honors was Nancy Davison, 24, a somewhat younger, prettier festival queen. She swung the champagne. Bonk! Nothing happened. Thrice more she smote to no avail until the kindly Mayor said, "Give me that please." Whereupon he swung from the toenails, lost his grip, and hurled the champagne into the Hudson River. "Forget it," sighed...
...Colombia, the two leading candidates to become the nation's next President are both supporters of Opus Dei. In Britain, where Right-Wing Tory M.P. John Biggs-Davison is an Opus Dei proponent, the Queen Mother presided six months ago at the dedication of the organization's London residence hall. Opus Dei members run a language school in Japan, teach Indians in the Peruvian Andes how to read, and founded Kenya's first racially integrated high school and a secretarial school for African girls. Total worldwide membership of the organization now approaches 60,000, of which only...
...rotates complaint-desk personnel to prevent them from getting too offensively defensive. This fall, Montgomery Ward for the first time established customer-relations managers in its nine catalogue territories to handle complaints in the rich and rising field of telephone orders. In Atlanta, President Rolland A. Maxwell of Davison's department store answers letters of complaint personally. President Milton...
...Davison's most startling thesis is that Mary, far from being a party to the gunpowder plot at Kirk o'Field, was really marked to be its victim. On the basis of meticulously constructed evidence, he charges that Darnley conspired with a faction of power-hungry lords to have the gunpowder planted in the residence, then touched it off himself, believing that Mary had returned to the house. Darnley fled to the garden, and there was strangled by his fellow conspirators...
Furthermore, Dr. Davison confirms the diagnosis of other historians that Mary suffered from an acutely active gastric ulcer. He also concludes that in terms of modern psychiatry she was a medically certifiable hysteric. He blames her neurosis on her troubled childhood in the first instance, and unusual height. As a child, she fell into sobbing tantrums in times of stress. In later life, she always got sicker when her fortunes ebbed-in one crisis she lost the use of her legs for some weeks. If she was a hysteric, Author Davison considers it highly unlikely that Mary was driven...