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...Argyll divorce case, who reportedly paid to have his face cropped from pornographic pictures introduced at the trial. The minister in question submitted to an examination by a doctor "of the highest eminence," proving that his "physical characteristics differed in unmistakable and significant respects" from those of the duchess' nude friend. Lord Denning could hardly resist adding that he had obtained new evidence that "indicated who the 'unknown man' was. But I need not go into it here...
...Lord Denning, 64, set about his assignment by interviewing 160 Britons, ranging from Harold Macmillan (twice) to Call Girl Mandy Rice-Davies, who gushed: "He's the nicest judge I ever met." He checked into the Argyll divorce case, in which an unidentified lover of the duchess-known as "the headless man" because his face had been cropped from nude snapshots that were introduced at the trial-had been rumored to be a Cabinet minister...
...with leather-jacketed toughs, while chauffeured Bentleys delicately inched their way through. Wild-eyed girls with straggly black hair and blue-jeaned boys with golden tresses were frog-walked into paddy wagons. Some 200 people were jailed. Taking advantage of the chaos, a six-man gang waylaid the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, sped off in a white Jaguar with her jewels, worth $200,000. Most shocking of all, for the first time in her eleven-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II was booed by her own people...
...Yank vaulted the net at Wimbledon, and Texas' Chuck McKinley, 22, could be pardoned if his form looked a little rusty. But he cleared it with inches to spare. Then, with a wild whoop of joy, he hippety-hopped up to the royal box, where Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent, handed him the silver trophy that goes to the winner of the All-England tennis championships - the world's most important tennis tournament...
...Mouse on the Moon. Like so many Son of and So-and-So Meets sequels, this offspring of 1959's The Mouse That Roared just barely squeaks by. Sorely missed is Peter Sellers, who in the triple role of Grand Duchess Gloriana of Grand Fenwick, Prime Minister Mountjoy and Field Marshal Bascombe managed to make Roared an off-beat tour de force. Neither waggish, wrattled Margaret Rutherford as the 1963 model Gloriana nor fatuous, foppish Ron Moody as the new Mountjoy manages to do more than add tricks to what is already too tricky...