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Speaking for the majority in a 65-page, densely footnoted opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that Congress had explicitly authorized the rules of secrecy in the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Furthermore, the Civil Rights Commission had been given a fact-finding mandate-as opposed to a judicial function-and "cannot take any affirmative action which will affect an individual's legal rights." Due process, said Warren, "is an elusive concept. Its exact boundaries are undefinable . . . When a general fact-finding investigation is being conducted, it is not necessary that the full panoply of judicial procedures be used...
...number, 371, by 53, the number of the page, and the quotient was seven!"). According to the Donnelly lucky-seven countdown, it turned out that Bacon wrote not only Shakespeare, but all of Marlowe, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Montaigne's Essays. The Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford boom was drummed up in 1920 by a Gateshead schoolmaster named J. Thomas Looney, a proper foil for the Baconian camp's George M. Battey. The fact that De Vere died in 1604, and The Tempest, for example, contains allusions to events after 1604, puts a crimp...
...life of allegory," wrote Keats. "His works are the comments on it." The allegory is gap-filled, encouraging the strange game of pseudoscholarship designed to show that Shakespeare did not really write the plays, that he was a front man for Sir Francis Bacon or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford,* or Christopher Marlowe or Sir Walter Raleigh or Queen Elizabeth or even the Bard's wife, Anne Hathaway. Amateur cryptographers have thought they found hidden codes in Shakespeare's writing, pointing to the true authors...
Juicy Case. In Cincinnati, Rita Adams was awarded a divorce because her husband Earl never talked to her, just did "odd things like squeezing a tomato in my face...
...boom, or limits to its surprises. Last week Sotheby's put up for sale a 168-piece silver service that had never been shown outside Berkeley Castle. It is the work of the great French Silversmith Jacques Roettiers and part of it was probably ordered by the third Earl of Berkeley for the 21st birthday of his son in 1737. Rare and beautiful as it surely is, it fetched a price that astonished even astonishment-proof Sotheby's. After only 2½ minutes of bidding, the gavel went down on the figure offered by Frank Partridge & Sons...