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...conviction that "international marriage should be a hanging offense." When Fanny's marriage failed, her father decreed that if she and her three children were to inherit his fortune, they must promise never to return to Europe to live or marry Europeans. Fortunately for Prince Charles, Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, the elder of Fanny's twin sons, defied his grandfather and returned to Britain to claim the Fermoy title. His marriage, to Scotswoman Ruth Sylvia Gill, produced Frances Ruth Burke Roche. And her marriage to Edward John Spencer, which ended in divorce in 1969, produced Lady Diana Spencer...
Critics came in for rougher treatment. Edmund Wilson boosted young Hemingway's career in the '20s. By the time of To Have and Have Not, The Fifth Column and For Whom the Bell Tolls, the critic was using phrases like "a growing antagonism to women" and "the all-too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." Hemingway responded to his editor Maxwell Perkins. Wilson, he writes, "reads most interestingly on all the things one does not know about. On the things one knows about truly he is stupid, inaccurate, uninformative and pretentious. But because he is so pretentious...
Sanford's panel includes some 20 heavyweights from both major parties, among them former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, Republican Senator Robert Dole, Carter National Campaign Chairman Robert Strauss and onetime Reagan Presidential Campaign Manager John Sears. In coming months the group will hold a series of meetings around the country, under the auspices of Duke and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, inviting contributions from politicians, journalists, campaign organizers, pollsters and anybody else with ideas about ending the current chaos. The committee hopes to build enough momentum to cause the rules committees of both parties to make...
Daniel A. Steiner '54, general counsel to the University who has been handling the matter for Bok, said he would have no comment "unless and until" Baranczak arrives. Dean Rosovsky, who said that he had last year written former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie regarding Baranczak, said he voted be "very delighted" if Baranczak can come here...
...consequently low taxes. It turns out, however, that the assessor, Russ Wolden, had actually been keeping homeowners' assessments artificially low, and making up the difference with high taxes on the businesses that did not make the payoffs. Wolden went to jail and the system was "reformed" by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Sr. and the Democratic California assembly. The result caused all property to be assessed at 25 per cent of valuation, whereas before many businesses had been assessed at up to 50 per cent of valuation. Consequently, the reform set in motion a massive shift from business taxpayers to homeowners...