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...bench in Berkeley Square, comforted by a friend, while the repentant press slipped a note onto the seat of her red mini Metro: "We didn't mean this to happen. Our full apologies." "The press made Diana's life difficult," said her father, the eighth Earl Spencer, "but she behaved very well. It has proved to be a test, though it wasn't meant to be, and she came through with flying colors. I couldn't have done it myself at 19. I would have collapsed...
Last week the Sunday Times produced a different sort of shocker, and the featured players were no less stunning: the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth and onetime Admiral of the Fleet; and Cecil King, now 80, former chairman of the International Publishing Corporation, Britain's largest press empire. The Sunday Times revived the story of a 1968 meeting between the two, first told by Lord Hugh Cudlipp, who was then deputy chairman of I.P.C. According to Cudlipp's 1976 autobiography, King had sought the assistance of Lord Mountbatten to mount a military coup against...
...moves me to see so many students taking their destinies into their own hands," the Rev. Earl Jackson, of the Mass. Ave. Baptist Church, told the crowd. "God is on your side," he added...
...Utah Mormon officials had a much cooler reaction. Earl Olson, assistant managing director of the Mormons' historical department, says that the discovery requires little or no " re-evaluation" of how the 4.7 million-member church pick its leaders. In other words the rival groups probably their will continue to go their seperate ways...
...usual ("Send me everything on marijuana") and the unusual (a picture of a stained-glass window showing monks riding bicycles). Requests for pictures that the staff believes to be nonexistent are met with gentle regrets. Among the most frequently sought-after: the sinking of the Titanic, the Earl of Sandwich eating a sandwich, and the elusive Gabriel Fahrenheit, developer of the thermometric scale, an authentic picture of whom would earn a $1,000 reward from the archive. Fees for the archive's service (exclusive of royalties) can range from...