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...wife of Billionaire John Kluge, chairman of Metromedia, Inc. Last week the British press uncovered a part of her past that had eluded the careful perusal of Buckingham Palace. In the 1970s the former Patricia Rose had posed as a full-frontal nude for the raunchy British skin magazine Knave. It transpired that Mr. and Mrs. Kluge will be traveling abroad the night of the ball...
...freedom was written on behalf of a press that was far more noisy, brawling and partisan than the much maligned journalism of today. As a California judge noted in his opinion in a 1979 libel case, George Washington was called a murderer, Thomas Jefferson a blackguard and a knave, Henry Clay a pimp, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant drunkards. Abraham Lincoln was termed a half-witted usurper, a baboon, a gorilla and a ghoul. Yet none of the nation's early leaders even attempted to sue, although some may have shared Benjamin Franklin's professed desire to balance "the liberty...
...real-life Queen and Knave of Hearts (Taylor and Burton) have been plotting a return to Broadway in Noel Coward's Private Lives. Meanwhile, Richard's daughter Kate Burton (by his first wife Sybil) has finished her Coward duties with George C. Scott in Present Laughter, and is moving on to Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. The Broadway show is set to open on Dec. 23, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Carroll's birth and the 50th anniversary of Actress Eva Le Gallienne's original stage presentation. Inspired by the illustrations of Sir John Tenniel...
...ways. Round the world he goes, bumping over the Alps in a cargo plane, hopping a banana boat in Panama, crossing Siberia on a dingy train. Wherever he stops, he is taken up by the wealthy and titled, and he embraces their patronage uncritically: he recalls not a single knave or bore among them...
Phillips: The position of the CP was an historical disaster--only a fool or a knave could have supported it after...