Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Testified his ex-secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Runge: "Mr. Lamb said that while in Russia [in 1936, as a tourist-writer], he attended a Communist school . . . when Earl Browder was there." Lamb pooh-poohs the assertion. A Toledo cement finisher swore that he saw Lamb give money to Lincoln House (the city's Communist headquarters) at its dedication...
...president of two Oklahoma City truck lines. In as director and executive committee member went Roy G. Woods, 54, Oklahoma oilman and owner of several trucking companies. Rentzel and Woods got a five-year option to buy 20% of Slick Airways stock (100,000 shares). Founder Earl Slick, whose family still owns 51% of Slick, stepped down to a directorship...
...Britain's most resounding titles, which for sheer euphony tops that of many a noble duke and earl, is held by the Lord of the Manor of Circum cum Wilcocks alias Fransham Parva in the parish of Little Fransham. Last week, along with 26 other manorial lordships, it was knocked down at auction for a paltry $924. At the same auction, London Bookseller William Alfred Foyle bought himself five lordships...
Handsome and dashing Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma,* had known many triumphs since his father's downfall. The stigma of his German ancestry had long since been erased in the process of anglicizing Battenberg to Mountbatten. Though once dismissed as a mere playboy, he had had the satisfaction in World War II of seeing his superiors seethe as he was plucked from beneath them to be made first an acting admiral and later Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia...
...appointment leaked out some months ago, Lord Beaverbrook protested in his Sunday Express: "If it is offered he should refuse it." But, as last Viceroy of British India, as commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, and lately as head of all NATO naval forces in the Mediterranean, Earl Mountbatten has shown himself an able officer. Last week, even Beaverbrook's Sunday Express was forced to admit: "There can be no objection to his naval record...