Word: j
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOUGLAS J. MURPHEY...
...MARY J. JANCOSKI...
...review of Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick [Aug. 2] mentioned that Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry, said "a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never" before being beheaded. This may not mean that the King was an admirable character, since it was traditional in those days for condemned persons to say a good word for the monarch before their death. If a convicted person started a last-minute inflammatory tirade against the monarch, he could be dragged off at the very last minute, to a much crueler death...
...J. HAMPER...
...Died. J. R. Cominsky, 69, longtime publisher of the Saturday Review and vice president since 1961 of its parent, McCall Corp.; of a heart attack; in Asbury Park, N.J. Acting against the advice of friends, Cominsky in 1942 took on the small, impoverished Saturday Review of Literature, revamped its advertising, helped enlarge its editorial content and agreed to a merger with McCall in 1961-all of which boosted circulation to nearly 600,000 copies a year, 15 times that...