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Chief Justice Earl Warren read the 17-page opinion word for word in a quiet proceeding, while in Little Rock the lease plan blessed by Gov. Orval E. Faubus was being put into effect...
From his chair next to Chief Justice Earl Warren, tiny, pince-nezed Felix Frankfurter observed: "A court of equity would not be beyond its powers to require that the bridge be restored...
...favor. "That B.B.B.B. old B.* the Duchess of Marlbh" (as the architect of Blenheim Palace, Sir John Vanbrugh, described her) outlived not only her husband, but Anne, Anne's successor (George I) and most of her own children. Widowed at 62, she rejected offers of marriage from an earl and from the proud Duke of Somerset. Marlborough had loved her passionately (tradition has it that on coming home from the wars, he would "pleasure" her even before he had taken off his boots), and Sarah's reply to Somerset has gone down in history. "If I were young...
...house on Manhattan's unprepossessing West 103rd Street, Mrs. Fred Townley answered the telephone, gave up a small chunk of hard-won anonymity. Married for 25 years to a law-trained businessman, Miss America of 1922 and 1923-the only double winner of the contest-told Gossipist Earl Wilson that she was less than keen about a free trip to this year's rite at Atlantic City (see SHOW BUSINESS). Explained the former Mary Campbell: "I got so tired of the publicity I didn't ever want to hear about Miss America again." Pressed for her life...
Dispatching his personal barber, Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Louis F.A.V.N. Mountbatten, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, put down a kinky situation. Crisis : the hair on the new wax Mountbatten at London's famed Madame Tussaud's museum was far too curly. The barber slicked down all but a single, suavely undulant wave...