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...stately homes of England, perhaps the stateliest is Chatsworth, a vast Palladian palace set on 50,000 acres of park and woodland, which for generations has been the family seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, whose family name is Cavendish. The first earl, who was one of Henry VIII's bullyboys, began amassing the huge family fortune by taking over some of the prize abbey lands confiscated during Henry's fight with Rome. The Devonshires came to epitomize the British landed aristocracy, and became famous for their arrogant eccentricities...
...state offices won both nominations. Last week only one-vote-getting Attorney General Pat Brown, the only Democrat holding a major state office -was able to do so. U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel and Governor Goodwin J. Knight, Republicans, failed to match the double primary victories of Governor Earl Warren in 1946 and U.S. Senator William Knowland...
National Convention (where she seconded the nomination of Earl Warren), was nominated as the Republican candidate for the state senate, where no woman has ever served. A former model and fashion writer, Mrs. Younger is the wife of Municipal Judge Evelle Younger, has a ten-year-old son. (A second son died of polio in 1947; Mrs. Younger herself survived a nine-month siege of polio in 1951.) She believes she won the primary on "a moral issue." The man she defeated: State Senator Jack Tenney, onetime chairman of the California Un-American Activities Committee, the violently anti-Semitic...
...running for Congress in California, Jimmy Roosevelt had to overcome almost as many problems as a soap-opera heroine. To begin with, he had to make a political comeback; in 1950 he had been beaten by more than 1,000,000 votes by Earl Warren for governor. This time he 1) faced nine candidates, 2) was repudiated by Democratic National Chairman Steve Mitchell, and 3) was, of course, dogged everywhere by his famed signed letter in which he confessed to adultery with nine women...
...with the Central? Disregarding for the moment Young's high-flown proposals, such as the lightweight Train X, roller bearings and refrigerated cars, he says he will first "spend six months getting acquainted Those present: Allan P. Kirby, Young's side, kick and president of Alleghany Corp.; Earl E. T. Smith, New York Stock Exchange member and former husband of a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Dr. R. Walter Graham, Baltimore physician; William Landers of Utica, retired Central engineer; D. E. Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn, New York Stock Exchange...