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About the same time, in Essex County, N.J., Frank Van Dyk, ex-hospital fund raiser, solved Blue Cross's worst handicap. He persuaded all the county's hospitals to join in one group, permit subscribers to go to any hospital they chose. This is now standard Blue Cross practice...
...Times's letters column Lieut. Colonel P. Youngman Carter of d'Arcy House, Tolleshunt d'Arcy, near Maldon, Essex, announced a horrifying discovery (in an old wardrobe): a bowler hat whose brim turned down. Wrote he: "The hat possesses a classic (or dome-of-St. Paul's) crown, five inches high but unwaisted, but the brim, which is a full two and a half inches wide, is perfectly flat save for an inverted gutter at the extreme edge.... I am wondering if it is an example of individual taste...
Next week, in this simple ceremony at the First Unitarian Church of Essex County (Orange, N.J.), Pierre Van Paassen, anti-fascist and best-selling author, will become a Unitarian minister. Van Paassen will not have a church. He plans to write and preach throughout the country in the belief that "a small flame can set an immense heap of wood on fire...
...efforts to keep him on a diet ("two ounces of flesh" a day, and "the twentieth part of a pint of wine to comfort his stomach"), sweet Robin was getting paunchy. And then, one day, the Queen discovered that he had secretly married handsome, widowed Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex -or "that she-wolf," as the Queen preferred to call...
...aging queen promptly promoted Leicester's stepson, the Earl of Essex, to her old favorite's place. She also gleefully hounded the widowed "she-wolf" until she had got back every penny Leicester owed her. But she kept a soft spot in her heart for her old favorite. On the note that the dying man had sent her from the country, she wrote, "His last letter," and laid it away in a chest beside...