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...Eyes." Within a year of her accession Elizabeth had ruled that Dudley must never leave her side under any circumstances. She nicknamed him "my sweet Robin" and "my two eyes" (later, she dubbed Sir Walter Raleigh "my two Lydds"), and later, when her advisers began to press her to marry a foreign prince, she would point to Robert Dudley and exclaim that there was the only man she would wish to marry-"not one who would sit at home all day among the cinders." When he took part in public games, she dressed up as a serving maid...
...dazzled Elizabeth in the Tower. His face was red, his beard streaked with grey, his hair thin. And despite Elizabeth's efforts to keep him on a diet ("two ounces of flesh" a day, and "the twentieth part of a pint of wine to comfort his stomach"), sweet Robin was getting paunchy. And then, one day, the Queen discovered that he had secretly married handsome, widowed Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex -or "that she-wolf," as the Queen preferred to call...
British scientists had brought this storm upon themselves by insisting that something be done and done soon about internationalizing The Bomb. A prominent spokesman for them had been Physicist Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant. Others, following Oliphant's lead, had secretly circulated a round robin declaring that they would rebel against enforced secrecy if the Government ignored them, Official Secrets...
Room accommodations will be supplied for 200 Harvard dates at a charge of $2.50 per girl, while their escorts will be distributed in the college gratis. Requests should be sent to Robin F. Worthington '47, and Edward L. Liva '47, both of Lowell House. The first 200 sending stamped self-addressed envelopes to them will receive the available space...
...past, intramural basketball will be organized on a round robin schedule, with the NROTC units taking part. Beginning early in December, inter-House tournaments will last until the holidays, when the Varsity will be called...