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...Charging Wacker and BWH have responded insufficiently to their allegations, members of the committee have renewed their demand that UHS disclose some annual gynecological statistics which they say may well support their charges. More significantly, they have said they lodged the complaint--based on anonymously mailed statistics on delivery-rook records--primarily to draw attention to what they call a wide variety of complaints about the same doctor, Paul I. Winig...
...said flatly that "a crowd of 200 gasped" as Lady Di stepped out of her limo. Even the Times of London permitted itself a slight whimsicality. When Prince Charles ascends the throne, mused Columnist Alan Hamilton, "the royal couple will be known as the King and Di." Writer Jean Rook of the Daily Express complimented Diana "for putting on a bold, beautiful front, and for turning her cold, bare shoulders on the traditional, covered-up royal evening dress." Added Rook: "Her Gone With the Wind dress is high, young fashion. It takes courage, and a lot more, to uphold...
...romantic couples in the action. If the course of true love never does run smooth, it traverses some pretty funny country. The play, dating from 1706, takes place in the sleepy village of Shrewsbury. Captain Plume (Brian Murray), a recruiting officer, has come to the place to rook and hook the local lads into military service...
Others of the London press were quick to criticize the Sunday Mirror. The paper had acted "disgracefully," editorialized the conservative Daily Mail. "It makes you wince," volunteered Columnist Jean Rook in the pro-Tory Daily Express. A Daily Mail article quoted Lady Diana as insisting: "I've never been anywhere near the train, let alone in the middle of the night." Prince Charles, in New Delhi on a state visit, observed that in the press, honesty and integrity "often get submerged in the general rush for sensationalism...
...shame of Araby," protested Express Columnist Jean Rook. "At a stroke which sliced off a man's head in a howling market place the Arabs have put themselves back a thousand and one years in the eyes of the startled, revolted world." Later, the Express located a German-born woman in London who had been a governess to the Saudi royal family. The newspaper ran her narrative under the rubric "the real story by the woman who knew the secrets in the heart of the tragic princess...