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...Elizabeth's life was Thomas, Lord Seymour, lord high admiral of England. (According to some history books, Tom was an unprincipled wolf who tried to seduce the princess in order to maneuver his way toward the throne.) But there were complications: Seymour was already married-to Catherine Parr, widow of Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII. The movie makes further complications by picturing Ned Seymour, the Protector Somerset, as a villain plotting to rule England by force and terror instead of by the will of the people. Ned had his brother's relations with Elizabeth investi gated...
...ELBERT PARR TUTTLE, 55, Atlanta tax lawyer and post-convention Republican state chairman, to be general counsel (head of the Legal Division) of the Treasury Department. Tuttle's high-domed head and earnest oratory came to the attention of several million U.S. televiewers during last summer's Republican National Convention, when he sparked the Georgia pro-Eisenhower delegation's dramatic and successful fight against the claims of the rival pro-Taft delegation. Tuttle had been in battle before: in World War II, he was an artillery battalion commander in the Pacific. An ex-officer who served under...
Touchy Subject. In Douglasville, Ga., as H. L. Parr started to sketch a picture of the devil his minister had asked him to make for a church meeting, a rip-roaring electric storm broke out, lightning struck a cable post, knocked out Parr's switch box, put out his lights and tore up his water pump...
Mystery Man. The more the Oklahoman and Times dug, the worse it smelled. The Oklahoman's court reporter, Ray Parr, teamed up with Van Dyke and Timesman Henry Burchfiel to sift through a 20-year mountain of records. They soon noticed that a "Ted Smith" had bought much of the tax-sale land, though nobody in town knew any real-estate man named Ted Smith. When the reporters checked up on notaries who had witnessed "Ted Smith's" signature, they flushed a well-to-do printing-company executive named W. C. Bonney. He admitted he had used...
Briskly he passes on to another Ayot tourist attraction, the house of Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII...