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Above all, Forbes is the smiling face in a dour Republican race, an economic optimist using sunny, supply-side theory to brighten up what he describes as the "sourpuss views" of his Republican rivals. Yet for all his patrician good humor, Forbes' message and his campaign have begun to show a hard edge...
DIED. LORD HOME OF THE HIRSEL, 92, who, as Sir Alec Douglas-Home, was British Prime Minister from 1963 until the Conservative Party lost the 1964 elections; in Berwickshire. The Scottish patrician changed party rules to let legislators pick their leader--thus assuring he would be the last blue blood to head the Tories. He also served two stints as Foreign Secretary...
...dealer who was tried four times for shooting and killing Danny Hansford, a Camaro-driving handyman and hustler. But the book is no typical true-crime thriller; it is as close to Paul Theroux as it is to Dominick Dunne. Populated by a townful of Southern Gothic characters, from patrician bon vivants like the polo-playing Harry Cram to Williams' canny, football-obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions of Stormy Weather, the book is a portrait of a gossipy and class-conscious...
Psychopathic Patrician...
John S. Sample, who met Sheldon while studying at Antioch, says he was an eccentric exemplar of the New England Harvard patrician demeanor...