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Sir: The story about Gordon McLendon's ban on "suggestive" records [May 26] was disgusting. Honni soit qui mal y pense. Most "adult" minds could find dirt in anything if they looked for it. Mr. McLendon may be able to ban records, but the teen-agers are the ones...
At a morning ceremony in the throne room at Windsor Castle, Elizabeth herself adorned him with the ancient insignia of the Order: the golden collar, the "great George," the "lesser George," the Star and the Garter itself, a band of dark blue edged with gold and embroidered with the famed...
"On a beautiful evening in August 1582, Queen Elizabeth entered the ancient town of Coventry, and divesting herself of her clothing, mounted a snow-white stallion and rode through the principal streets of the city. On her way she met Sir Walter Raleigh, who, observing her naked condition, threw his...
In 1908 he went with a friend (who paid) to Venice, and stayed on there at the ex pense ' of one and another acquaintance for five years. When money was low, he slept in open boats and fought off the big wharf rats. When it was high, he spent...
Over the next four decades Winston Churchill got to know Harold Laski pretty well, and the better he knew him the more he disliked him-intellectually, anyway. By 1945, Harold Laski was chairman of the British Labor Party's executive committee and Winston Churchill was rumbling: "Honi soit qui...