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...professional political manager, Lawyer Chotiner has been an important figure in California G.O.P. politics for 15 years. In 1942 he was field director in the first campaign for governor waged by Earl Warren, now Chief Justice of the United States. In 1946 and 1952 he was a campaign manager for Bill Knowland, now Senate minority leader. He helped in the Nixon campaigns for Congress in 1946 and 1948, and managed Nixon's campaign for the Senate in 1950. In the vice-presidential campaign of 1952, Chotiner helped guide Nixon through the hectic days of the Nixon fund uproar...
...many a zealous amateur scholar it is unthinkable, for reasons not always clear, that Dramatist William Shakespeare should have written his own plays. Some have preferred to credit Sir Francis Bacon, others the Earl of Oxford, the Earl of Rutland or the Earl of Derby. Some 20 years ago a Broadway pressagent named Calvin Hoffman dug up another old theory: the true author was the dissolute young genius Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe, so this one goes, was not killed in that famous tavern brawl; he simply went into hiding and as an outlaw wrote the plays since credited to Shakespeare. Proof...
When the official ceremony was done, the King, the Queen, the leading officials and the distinguished guests were hoisted onto the backs of newly painted elephants for a grand parade through the city. Britain's aristocratic Earl of Scarbrough and one of Red China's Vice Premiers, Ulanfu, who shared a howdah, smiled wanly at the cheering crowds as their huge beast heaved and rolled along the line of march. Behind them an elephantload of Indian maharajas grinned as happily as college boys joy riding...
...last year more than 60% of the burley tobacco farms in the U.S. were down to the minimum allowed by the law, one-half of one acre, a plot so small that it can hardly be farmed efficiently. Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has a label for the process: "rationing poverty...
Trial Run. In Bad Axe, Mich., making his debut as the town's new police chief, Earl Rapson left the key in the force's only scout car when he walked across the street to chat with a friend, turned in time to see the car disappear around a corner...