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...duke who, after ringing a gold bell, was able to order his groom of the chambers: "Perfection round at a quarter before three, if you please." Perfection was only a horse, but in Belvoir Castle, it might have seemed to young Diana Manners that the Seventh Duke of Rutland had only to ring his little gold bell to summon up perfection itself. Now 66 and the widow of gallant, talented Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Diana has written a story that might have been just another garrulous memoir in which an old lady shows...
VINCENT V. DANIELS Rutland Heights, Mass...
...many a zealous amateur scholar it is unthinkable, for reasons not always clear, that Dramatist William Shakespeare should have written his own plays. Some have preferred to credit Sir Francis Bacon, others the Earl of Oxford, the Earl of Rutland or the Earl of Derby. Some 20 years ago a Broadway pressagent named Calvin Hoffman dug up another old theory: the true author was the dissolute young genius Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe, so this one goes, was not killed in that famous tavern brawl; he simply went into hiding and as an outlaw wrote the plays since credited to Shakespeare. Proof...
...Rutland (Pico Peak)--Excellent...
...Rutland County, Vt. in 1894, when more than 100 children were stricken. The woman in the wheelchair was 64-year-old Miss Sarah Jones, the only victim of the epidemic now alive...