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...Harvard Society for the Study of Western Cultural History and Literature has nominated Martha Streiff '61. Extending professional courtesy to other college humor publications, the CRIMSON has permitted the Columbia Jester to nominate Priscilla Bowden '61. Also, the Yale Daily News sent a special telegram request last night that Miss Myra Kriegel, one of the eight experimental New Haven co-eds, be considered. From as far away as the University of Colorado nominations have come in. Miss Marilyn Kelly of CU has been nominated by the Flatiron, a frequently banned local humor magazine...
...Secretary Dulles came to the vacation White House office to work out the draft note on the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Even the company of such close bridge and golfing friends as U.S. Ambassador John Hay Whitney and Washington Lawyer-Industrialist George E. Allen, roly-poly White House jester through the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower regimes, failed to give the needed break from the world's pressing worry...
Then Frank ("Lover Boy") Sinatra, the picture's hero, lounged into town trailed by a variegated crew of camp followers that included Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, a couple of casual redheads, and a court jester named Mack ("Killer") Gray. Less than a day later, love began to die between Metro and Madison...
Nicknamed "Putzi," Hanfstaengl has described himself as Hitler's "court jester." He fled Germany in 1937 when, as he said in a recent interview, Hitler stopped listening to his advice...
Expensive Jester. Voltaire had been in the Bastille twice, and though the governor had made him quite comfortable, Voltaire had insisted that he must not be arrested again without plenty of notice. The court of Prussia's Frederick the Great was open to Voltaire as a refuge. But it consisted, says Author Mitford tartly, "of middle-class intellectuals, cosmopolitan Sodomites and Prussian soldiers"; moreover, jealous Emilie detested Frederick for trying to lure her lover to the Prussian court. Frederick's efforts to do so make some of the funniest sections of the book. Luckily for Emilie. monarch...