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...England), believes that historians have tended to neglect or forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey's witty, popular Elizabeth and Essex...
Last Chance. But last week Joe Kennedy seemed to have his old zest again. In a midnight blue Chrysler, he rode like a Paul Revere through the textile, shoe and machinery-producing towns in Middlesex, Essex, and Berkshire counties. All the way from Greenfield to Salem, in some 30 speeches within ten days, he spread the alarm...
October: Biggest carrier raid to date (Wake Island) included the Essex, the new Lexington and Yorktown, and three light flattops...
Winston Churchill, who had seemed invincible in the gratitude of the nation he had just helped so greatly to save, kept his own seat in Commons. But he saw ten thousand of the 38,000 electors in his constituency (Woodford, Essex) plump for a candidate of the lunatic fringe Alexander (farmer) Hancock. A more definite gesture of personal repudiation was scarcely possible...
Because some U.S. fliers went visiting in Essex, England, a chubby 9-year-old with a prodigious gift for piano-playing arrived in Watertown, Mass, last week. The youngster is blind Jimmy Osborne, who never studied music beyond listening to the BBC and to phonograph records. Now he is going to study at the Perkins Institution for the Blind...