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After 14 days of bewildering testimony the all-male, blue-ribbon jury took just three hours, nine minutes to find Broady guilty. In spite of the verdict, though, most of New York's 2,000,000 telephone subscribers were having trouble getting over that uncomfortable feeling that they might be addressing a large, unseen audience every time they answered the phone...
...some 2,000 Fredericton folks cheered in his adopted home province of New Brunswick, Britain's Ontario-born Lord Beaverbrook, 75, jauntily snipped a red-white-and-blue ribbon, thus opened an early Christmas gift to the locals, a $400,000 skating rink. Performing this duty "with a warm heart in a cold climate," The Beaver was proudly armed with a certificate, presented by Fredericton's mayor, giving him the freedom of the city. Whimsically, Lord Beaverbrook recalled a similar rite: "Some years ago I was given the Order of Suvorov, First Class, in Russia, and I said...
...amazing Isabella Stewart Gardner, was a Boston legend long before she died. People said she scrubbed the steps of the Church of the Advent as a penance and led two lions on the end of a ribbon down the main street of Boston. They swore that three footmen accompanied her carriage when the royalty of England stopped modestly at two. Those who knew her well deny the stories, but nevertheless, the truth about Mrs. Jack as she was called, was sufficiently exciting for the people of Boston around the turn of the century. Today, however, she is remembered...
With a slick ribbon...
...time: "I never seem to achieve anything with my blasted sculpture." He often journeyed to the Hébrard Foundry on the outskirts of Paris to pick up pointers. In his lifetime, he exhibited only one statue, an awkward ballet rat dressed in a real gauze tutu and hair ribbon. But even this and a few other waxworks caused his friend Renoir to exclaim: "Why, Degas is the greatest living sculptor." Degas was not so sure, once remarked: "To be survived by sculpture in bronze-what a responsibility! Bronze is so very indestructible...