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...early 1950s, Lady Isobel Barnett, wife of the lord mayor of Leicester, became a celebrity in Britain as a panelist on the BBC's version of What's My Line? Last month Lady Barnett, 62 and widowed ten years, faced a panel herself: a jury considering charges that she shoplifted a tin of tuna and a carton of cream worth about $2. She admitted slipping the items into a cloth bag pinned inside her coat, but insisted it was an oversight, and she told the court the cloth bag was where she kept a flashlight as protection against...
...page news in Britain. The day after her death, one tabloid ran a purported interview with Lady Barnett, complete with the headline "PLEASE HELP ME-I CAN'T STOP STEALING." The shopkeeper who had turned in Barnett received abusive letters. Wrote Novelist Penelope Mortimer, in the Evening Standard: "Isobel Barnett's disguise had been cracking for some time. No woman of her intelligence steals so clumsily unless she wants to get caught...
...burned at the stake, every facet of her person, her trial and the surrounding events are still scrutinized and argued by lawyers, theologians, historians, mystics, psychologists, poets and playwrights. Even medical pathologists have joined in the continual replaying of the trial of the Maid of Orleans. In 1958 Scholar Isobel-Ann Butterfield and her physician husband John theorized that an advanced infection of bovine tuberculosis might have led to the phenomenon of Joan's hearing voices. Critic Albert Guérard was right when, in a review of one of the thousands of books about her, he said...
...number of students receiving fellowships was slightly lower this year than last. In 1974, seven students received Rhodes Scholarships; this year, only five. This year, however, five women received the American Isobel L. Briggs Fellowship, while in 1974 only four did. In sex-limited fellowships, the women generally did better than in 1974, and the men worse. This flux, however, represents no definite trend, and the number of fellowships given out tends to waver somewhat from year to year...
Agnew drops the princess phone and shouts to Judy in the next room, "I'm it!" Whereupon the camera would zoom in on Elinor Isobel Judefind Agnew, 47, plump, brunette wife of the Maryland Governor, as she registers the pride and terror of being transformed from a cheerful home body who "majored in marriage" (as she puts it) into the wife of a vice-presidential candidate...