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...good case in point is the recently published, unexpurgated, eight-volume edition of The Greville Memoirs: 1814-1860, edited by Lytton Strachey & Roger Fulford (Macmillan, $80). First published in an expurgated edition in 1874, nine years after hooknosed, cynical-lipped, elegant Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville's death, they seemed to Queen Victoria in "DISGRACEFULLY bad taste." Lord Winchilsea compared them to a life of the Apostles written by Judas Iscariot. Historians and biographers have long since ranked them among the greatest English political diaries. But, because some 80,000 words of the 91 red-covered notebooks were suppressed...
Several hours later Fulford Patrick Hardy turned up at the police station with his face scratched, all the buttons torn off his vest and a long story. He said that some Frenchmen had struck his mother, kidnapped him, turned him loose. His father, Senator Arthur Charles Hardy of Ontario, heard the news just before his steamer landed at Cherbourg, sped to the rescue with a high-powered French lawyer. Fulford Hardy had been clapped into jail. Mrs. Hardy, not seriously injured, tearfully inquired if he had a comfortable cell, if she might send him his pajamas. Two inspectors hurried...
Pulling up his car in Bonnieres, France, last week, Fulford Patrick Hardy. 22. Ontario socialite, suddenly cracked his mother over the head with the automobile crank, and drove off shouting "I've gone crazy! I've gone crazy!" Such at least was Mrs. Hardy's recollection of what happened before she collapsed. "I can't think why he did it," she added later. "He was such a good cheery boy about the house...
...mystery it was, particularly when bloodstains and a bullet hole were found in the roof of the car, but Ottawa citizens took the matter as just one more incident in the lively annals of the Hardy family. Fulford Patrick Hardy's maternal grandfather was the Senator Fulford whose great fortune was derived from "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." His elder sister Mary married the heir to another successful nostrum, "Dr. Rogers' Fruitatives...
...social leader of Ottawa, was appointed Speaker of the Canadian Senate by Liberal Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King. This position he filled with apparent success despite his almost total deafness. Not long ago Daughter Mary mistook poison for Fruitatives in her medicine closet and died. Last January Son Fulford Patrick Hardy eloped with a 16-year-old Toronto school girl, and after a wild ride from Toronto to Detroit to Toledo to Crown Point, Ind., finally got married. They separated soon after...