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Bachelor Lynde Cochrane, 45, was descended from the fifth Earl of Douglas and from Scotland's hero, Robert Bruce. He married Vivian in a sneak ceremony on Aug. 12, 1917, and "immediately took off," said the Boston Globe, "in a high-powered automobile with clear weather and plenty of gasoline to take them to Newport on their way to a Maine hunting lodge." The second of their five children was Ceezee- christened Lucy Douglas Cochrane. Cochrane died in 1928, and in 1930 Vivian married another rich, blue-blooded Boston bachelor. Attorney Dudley L. Pickman Jr. He moved the whole...
...Joining with Black were Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan and William J. Brennan Jr. Black and Warren are Baptists; Clark, Harlan and Douglas are Presbyterians (Douglas is a minister's son; Clark served for years as a church elder). Brennan is the court's only Roman Catholic. Justices Felix Frankfurter and Byron R. White took no part in the decision. White and Dissenter Stewart are Episcopalians, and Frankfurter is a Jew by origin, but answers "no comment" when asked about his religious affiliation...
...trial was a painful reminder of the era when Joe McCarthy was riding high, and suspicions, half-truths and innuendoes could ruin a man. As evidence of Faulk's "Communist" sympathies, for instance, Hartnett had cited the fact that Faulk had appeared "at a function" with Composer Earl Robinson, an often blacklisted leftist. That was all the pamphlet had said...
Duke of Kent, 26, gay blade in the Royal Scots Greys: a son, tenth in line to the British throne: in Tver, England. Title: Earl of St. Andrews...
Died. George Charles Montagu, 87, ninth Earl of Sandwich, whose :8th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, is credited with concocting the first sandwich (a slab of beef between two pieces of bread) because he once refused to leave the gaming table for a more conventional repast, recipient in 1956 of the National Pickle Packers Association's annual "Pickle Award" in gratitude for the sandwich's assistance in helping the pickle packers peddle a peck of pickles; in Huntingdon, England...