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...wanted nothing more than to be a princess. At twelve I wrote Elizabeth II asking to be Prince Charles' pen pal. From twelve on I cut out every article I could find on Britain's royal family. Older but not wiser I still feel the magic. No presidential family has made me feel that...
...ladies who take pen in hand are not irresistibly attracted by the blue of my eyes," confessed Oil Tycoon Jean Paul Getty, who, after five wives, still receives marriage proposals by mail. "The magnetism I exert is of another color -green, the hue of my purported wealth." Small wonder. Getty, 83, in an introduction to his forthcoming autobiography, As I See It, estimates his net worth at well over $ 1 billion and that of his family at "about twice again as much." J.P. disclosed that to avoid the sort of inheritance scramble that followed the death of Fellow Billionaire Howard...
...awarding Bailyn the honorary "Degree of Humane Letters," Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. praised the 53-year-old historian as an "interpreter of the colonial age" whose "clarity of mind and pen bring a rare pattern of coherence and wholeness to our understanding of the American past...
...first of 200 hard cases-inmates convicted of at least two crimes-will arrive next week at the new maximum security federal prison at Butner, N.C., take one look and assume they are in a play pen. No gun towers, no cell blocks, no cavernous mess halls, no barred windows. At orientation, each inmate will be given a definite date for his release and be told that much of what he does until then will be up to him, but that nothing he does will get him out any earlier. His guards will wear blazers and slacks...
...biggest hits of the London theater season come from the pen of Ben Travers, an 89-year-old playwright who might well have been expected to have taken his final curtain. The National Theater has revived Travers' Plunder, serene fare today but daring when it was first produced 48 years ago because it set jewel theft and murder in a French-window farce. And brand new is The Bed Before Yesterday, a West End comedy that stars Joan Plowright as a foul-tempered, filthy-rich, frustrated widow belatedly discovering the pleasures of the marriage bed. The double-header triumph...