Word: earls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coverage, but inspired some new additions to a recent phenomenon: the Ford joke. As an accident-prone President with an amiable but bumbling style, Ford has become a straight man for columnists, gagwriters and partygoers. Ford has "become the country's leading target for jokes," Show Biz Chronicler Earl Wilson wrote last week. "Gone was all reverence for the No. 1 position in the land." The Washington Post's Nicholas von Hoffman called Ford "President Klutz," "Mr. Ten Thumbs," "the Great Flub-Dub" and "Old Bungle-Foot," all in a single column, and wondered whether he would become...
...told close friends about their affairs with Kennedy. Before her accidental death in 1967, Actress Jayne Mansfield claimed to have carried on a three-year intimate and intermittent romance with Kennedy. There is little doubt that Marilyn Monroe also had a sexual relationship with the President. Show-biz Chronicler Earl Wilson claims without qualification in his book Show Business Laid Bare: "Marilyn Monroe's sexual pyrotechnics excited the President of the United States." According to Wilson, their intimate relationship began about a year before her death and was pursued in New York's Carlyle Hotel, the Beverly Hills...
...given day, Dr. Spock might be glimpsed there selecting towels, Walter Matthau trying on suits. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis recently passed through to order presents to be sent to Caroline in London. Singer Diana Ross outfits herself and her children there?by long distance from California. Basketball Star Earl Monroe may drop in to pick up some after-shave lotion?and, he says, to "see how people with money...
...conspiracy theories is all the more remarkable because not a single fact linking Oswald with anyone else in a plot has become known in the eleven years since the Warren Commission issued its 888-page summary and 25 accompanying volumes of exhibits and testimony. Headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission included Congressmen Gerald R. Ford and Hale Boggs, Senators Richard B. Russell and John Sherman Cooper, former CIA Director Allen W. Dulles and former Diplomat John J. McCloy. The mass of evidence was gathered over nine months and based on some 25,000 interviews conducted...
...Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall and now, says the London Evening Standard, the "Show Biz Prince." As president of the Lord's Taverners, an association of charity-minded English entertainers, Prince Charles doffed his royal decorum last week and took a turn on the boards during the Taverners' silver jubilee at London's Grosvenor House. Then, after mingling with the ball's 1,300 guests until 2 a.m., the Prince returned to his workaday world at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich...