Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Australian press tired of chronicling the Kramer hassle, it turned loose all its superlatives on a lanky kid of 18 that Kramer has been grooming for the Cup matches. Brought along chiefly for experience, Earl ("Butch") Buchholz Jr. took hold under Kramer's tutelage, put some power into his scrambling game, upset both Anderson and the U.S.'s Alex Olmedo in the New South Wales championships, and went to the finals before losing to Cooper. Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "A tennis prodigy." Headlined the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial: THIS U.S. BOY COULD TAKE DAVIS...
Weighing this new breakdown and its new near parity, Aiken & Co. moved on to set specific objectives, notably: 1) G.O.P. liberals to get one of three top jobs-minority leader, whip, or a new job of assistant minority leader (leading candidate: California's Earl Warren protege, Tom Kuchel, 48); 2) G.O.P. liberals to get better committee assignments, e.g., one or two new spots on the blue-ribbon Foreign Relations Committee; 3) G.O.P. liberals to get more say in policy papers now put out by Bridges' Policy Committee in the whole party's name. Example of what...
Richard George, 69, quit his night-shift job as a billing-machine operator in the Reader's Digest circulation fulfillment department, went back to England and his full identity: Richard Lloyd George, second Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, son of World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George. When his father died in 1945, the new earl succeeded to the title but inherited nothing of the $300,000 estate, discomfitedly said: "If he was going to leave me the baby, he should have given me a perambulator to put it in." Home after ten years of self-exile...
...motto of the second Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby is Non vi sed arte (Not by force but by art). His arms include a beehive beset by nine bees volant, his crest a demilion gules holding in the dexter paw a crescent or. Last week an artful bee volant from Hoboken was buzzing about the prettiest hive ever to bear the illustrious Beatty name. Frank Sinatra, who recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while...
...first husband was Lawyer William V. O'Connor, now California deputy attorney general. Her second, who divorced her last June on charges of adultery, was Earl Beatty, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Prince Marshall Field, son of the late Baron Beatty of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet and dashing hero of Jutland, who is famed for his remark to a flag officer, after seeing two of his cruisers go down: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...