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Second: Peace, good tickle-brain, thinkest thou the brawny lacketh brain? To denote the 50th anniversary of the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, good Master Steve Garvey of the San Diego Padres, and his most puissant teammate, Master Tony Gwynn, are posing for a prankish publicity poster to help the theater. Sirrah, they are patrons both...
...articulateness, by immodesty, by fighting the stereotype, the bolder women circumvented their destiny. Actress Nell Gwynn moved up from selling oranges in the stalls to take advantage of the warrant of 1660 that allowed Englishwomen for the first time to play themselves onstage. She then advanced herself further by bearing a child to Charles II. This son of the orange wench was created a duke. A whore's life, Fraser is led to conclude, may be misspent without being necessarily wasted...
...Angeles Olympic Committee, which was credited with promoting international brotherhood, was recommended for a Nobel Peace Prize. With costs lowered so far, moreover, many countries, including Britain, Denmark and Sweden, suddenly decided they could participate. "We had to make it attractive for the athletes to come here," recalls Gwynn Wilson, who was associate manager for the Olympic committee. "I would say that without the village, we would not have been successful with our games...
...National Capital Park and Planning Commission. A group of local citizens raised money for its restoration, and last week it was formally dedicated as a historical monument. Boy Scouts directed traffic while an honor guard from nearby Andrews Air Force Base presented colors. Said Restoration Committee Chairman Thomas S. Gwynn Jr. to the 700 onlookers, including 30-odd Surratt descendants who attended the affair: "To remove this blot, this blemish, this cloud from the name of one of our local residents, is why we are here today...
High blood pressure is no respecter of age or sex; men and women are almost equally susceptible to the disorder. It strikes the powerful as well as the poor. King Charles II of England and his mistress Nell Gwynn both died from the complications of severe hypertension; so did such modern-day statesmen as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. Hypertension hits the young as well as the middleaged; doctors have found a surprising number of cases of high blood pressure among teen-agers and "swinging singles" and have even detected the disease in young children...