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...Washington, D.C., finagling for a low number has always consumed considerable time and energy. Most coveted are the tags from 1 to 1250. No. 1 belongs to the president of the board of District of Columbia commissioners (which issues all D.C. licenses). Chief Justice Earl Warren has 10, Drew Pearson 25, Roman Catholic Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle 37, Attorney General Robert Kennedy 50. So intense, in fact, has been the infighting for tags that, starting in 1965, the commissioners decreed that apart from the 1-1250 series anybody could order any combination of letters and numbers...
President Johnson is to be congratulated on his appointment of a special committee, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, "to satisfy itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered." The committee itself is to be congratulated for the deliberation and the discretion with which it is conducting the investigation...
Wendell Mottley, Yale's sprinter from Trinidad, turned in the best performance of the evening when he tied Earl Young's world indoor record of 55.5 seconds in the 500 yard...
Elliott Miller and captain Dave Brandling-Bennett finished first and second for Harvard in the 50 freestyle, as did Al Lincoln and Earl Showerman in the 200 backstroke. The Crimson also dominated the top two spots in the 200 individual medley because of the efforts of Henry Frey and Bill Chadsey...
...services, as he puts it with marvelous false humility, as a "mere historian." For anyone acquainted with Elizabethan history, he reports, it is all "quite simple." Beyond all doubt, the sonnets are to Southampton. W. H. was, clearly, William Harvey, Southampton's stepfather, who, when the young earl's mother died in 1608, inherited the sonnets and "got them" for Publisher Thorpe. Rowse points out that "beget" is used twice in Hamlet as meaning simply "to get." The sonnets were written in 1592-94, because they contain innumerable topical references "obvious to an historian." "Mortal moon," for example...