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Some think of others. Said Queen Marie Antoinette, after she stepped by accident on her executioner's foot: "Monsieur, I beg your pardon." "Let not poor Nelly starve," said Charles II of his mistress, Nell Gwyn. And George M. Cohan's last words were of his wife: "Look after Agnes." But few have left behind them last words as filled with dignity and grace as those of an Indian chief named Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Confederacy: "A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere...
...purple, he was so handsome, witty and intelligent that Louis XIV was maliciously pleased to describe him as "almost,the only English gentleman he had seen." Buckingham could "fix" anything, from a political treaty to a royal date: it was he, for example, who introduced King Charles to Nell Gwynn and arranged for the King to discover the Duchess of Cleveland in bed with Jack Churchill. He dabbled in chemistry, playwriting, poetry and music, and' his swordsmanship was such that peaceful men turned pale and ladies swooned when he strode into their presence. Along with his fellow rakes, Buckingham...
...Diaries of Lewis Carroll [TIME, March 29]: please, either tell me where I can buy a frictionless pulley, or give me the answer to the Rev. Charles Dodgson's puzzle.* NELL COUFAL Omaha ¶As the Rev. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) supplied no answer to his own puzzle, see below for one reader's solution...
...losers, forward John Green of Kirkland drew five fouls in the game, but came up with ton points to lead his mates. Forward Cliff Alexandor of Lowell tied the hard-charging, playmaker. Dan Mauers of Loverett, with seven points, while Kirkiland's Nell bortz took fourth in team scoring dropping in two field goals and a foul shot for total of five points...
...Nell Cogburn of Lexington, Ky., the return of her first husband, Sergeant Jimmie Cogburn, posed only a legal problem. Though she was "surprised and happy" to hear of Cogburn's release, 24-year-old Ava Nell frankly prefers her second husband. Farmer James Hern, whom she married two years after Cogburn was reported missing and presumed dead. Ava Nell, who has a six-year-old son by her first marriage and a month-old daughter by the second, hopes to divorce Cogburn, remarry Hern and keep both children. In Korea newly freed Jimmie Cogburn, who had joined the Army...