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...pale, sunken shadow of his once robust self, Ruby continued to look back on the assassination even in his final illness. Though his claim has already been corroborated by two lie-detector tests, he wants to take another test, says his brother Earl, "so that people will be convinced that there was no plan on his part, or conspiracy of any kind," to kill Oswald. "There is nothing to hide," Ruby said last week. "There was no one else...
...another dozen years. One day a week, Britain's Prince Andrew, 6, motors out from Buckingham Palace with his nanny and his detective to mix it up with some of the local stars at the public playground in Cale Street, Chelsea. Andrew tears around the blacktop like a pale Pelé, but he does seem to be more careful than his big brother. At Scotland's Gordonstoun School a couple of months ago, Bonny Prince Charlie emerged from a game of rugby with a broken nose...
Beyond the Pale. Taylor's biography fully illuminates a woman whose antipathy was by no means limited to booze. "Stated loosely," the author writes, "Mrs. Nation was against alcohol, tobacco, sex, politics, government (national, state and local), the Masonic Lodge, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan." At one time or another, she delivered haymakers against them all. "I never saw anything that needed a rebuke, or exhortation, or warning," she explained, "but that I felt it my place to meddle with...
Vessel of Wrath is a splendid tribute to its destructive subject, even though Parodist Taylor is outmatched. Carry's memory is secure from parody. She was a woman so extravagantly beyond the normal pale that even her avowed enemies, the whisky dispensers, had trouble believing she was real. Ultimately they became her most devoted allies, hiring bands to accompany her on lecture tours, subscribing to her house organ, The Smasher's Mail, and cheerfully providing the beer kegs that she mounted on street corners all over the country...
Childie (Eileen Atkins) is a long, pale taffy pull of a girl with the cringing whine of an eternal sycophant and the wily compliance of a slave. At the arbitrary whim of Sister George, Childie must kneel and kiss the hem of her master's skirt, drink her dirty bath water or chew and swallow one of her soggy cigar butts. Childie's fraud is that while she plays the lesbian, she lusts after men and cheats on Sister George...