Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patterson didn't keep his grievances and his precarious freedom to himself. He went to New York and teamed up with Earl Conrad, a white newspaperman who once worked on a Negro paper, and they turned out Scottsboro Boy, a raw, violent, unsparing book published last month. It was calculated to scrape old wounds and inflame Southern readers...
...British press was atwitter over the rumor that Princess Margaret had set her heart on marrying the tall, red-haired Earl of Dalkeith, 26, heir to the well-to-do Scottish Duke of Buccleuch. (The title dates from 1663, when Anne, Countess of Buccleuch, married the Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of Charles II.) Newspaper gossipists spoke well of the Earl's record at Eton, Oxford and in the Royal Navy, observed complacently that "the blood of the Stuarts is to be found in both." But at week's end, Buckingham Palace remained majestically mum. The Earl...
...such one-man crusades, and a passion for digging out facts, boyish-lookinp-32-year-old Earl Selby has made his column ("In Our Town") one of the most widely read in Philadelphia...
Philadelphia Bulletin Columnist Earl Selby started the day in a peculiar manner, came down to breakfast one morning with his face unshaven, and wearing the shabbiest clothes he could find. He sprinkled the contents of a vacuum cleaner over himself, then doused himself with stale beer. Selby's slim, red-haired wife Dorothy was not the least bit surprised at this performance...
Addressing 400 fashion experts at a Fashion Group luncheon last week in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, Allied Stores Corp.'s B. Earl Puckett was stern. "Basic utility," said he, "cannot be the foundation of a prosperous apparel industry . . . We must accelerate obsolescence." Reminding his listeners that 1948's apparel sales had been exceptionally good because of that year's one-shot "New Look," Puckett added that what was needed was a New Look every year. "Money that was not spent for soft lines . . . was not spent on other lines of merchandise, but was saved...