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...Boris Johnson - who is also a Member of Parliament, one of the Conservative Party's few truly popular figures, and a married father of four - was revealed to be conducting what Royce, writing in the tabloid Daily Mail, called "rumpy-pumpy at the Sextator" with his "Singular Life" columnist Petronella Wyatt. Johnson's private life is his own business, but Tory leader Michael Howard fired him as shadow arts minister on the deliciously Clintonian grounds that he hadn't told the whole truth about it when asked (which Johnson denies). One executive at the Spectator's parent company jokes, without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passion and Politics | 12/5/2004 | See Source »

...real people," as Mathias called them, from around the nation. Selected through professional associations, the group includes a truck driver from Alabama, a union official from Maryland, a farmer from Kansas, a fire fighter from Texas and a businesswoman from California. For the sixth, Buffalo Narcotics Agent Joe Petronella, the invitation presented a problem: he specializes in undercover work requiring disguises and refuses to be photographed. Even so, he vowed, "I'm going as myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Party Time in Washington | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...Robert Petronella, international vice president and director for District 6 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen, AFL-CIO, spoke earlier in the evening...

Author: By Charles S. Bergen, | Title: Chavez Predicts Victory for Farmworkers | 4/23/1975 | See Source »

...Petronella said, "the AFL-CIO is behind the farmworkers all the way, and we'll stay in the fight until victory is the farmworkers...

Author: By Charles S. Bergen, | Title: Chavez Predicts Victory for Farmworkers | 4/23/1975 | See Source »

...Petronella at once became "The Other Juliana" in newsprint. Her mighty Martinus, who towers so high above dumpy Petronella that the top of her head is just even with his breast pocket, heartily exclaimed, "Ja, we move right into a six-room house-small, but six rooms-for children, Ja!" It was beneath the dignity of the Royal Family to send a wedding present to "The Other Juliana" and they rested upon their royal dignity amid general Dutch satisfaction. WThen Petronella & Martinus went to the village Town Hall for their First-Class wedding the whole countryside had turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Other Juliana | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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