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Along Oxford's narrow streets crowds cheered ''Good old Charlie!" In the Town Hall, Oxonians enthusiastically applauded the little man in mortarboard and scarlet gown, upstaging his seven fellow honorary degree winners, including U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. But only after he had been handed his Doctor of Letters degree for having given "the greatest pleasure to so many people for so many years'' did British-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 73, relax in a toothy grin. "I would have needed a heart of cast iron not to be moved," said he. An exile from...
Died. Polly (real name: Pearl) Adler, 62, longtime (1920-45) Manhattan madam whose garish parlors were a house away from home for those who found the scarlet parrot on her business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny...
Both the traditional and new will provide a colorful backdrop to the activities of Commencement week. Many of the stately rituals accompanying Thursday's exercises date to Harvard's first commencement in 1642. In accord with ancient custom, for example, a troop of scarlet-coated, mounted National Lancers will escort Gov. John A. Volpe into the Yard...
Copley never went back to America: he became a highly successful member of the Royal Academy. Little Susannah, who sits in her grandfather's lap, was to die of scarlet fever at the age of nine. John Singleton Copley Jr., shown embracing his mother, became Lord Chancellor of England. One of his sisters (at right, in the painting) devoted her life to him, dying a spinster at the age of 95. The other, Elizabeth, the determined little figure standing in the center, went back to America. She married a Bostonian, as did her daughter Martha, who, as Mrs. Charles...
...scarlet, torpedolike British racing car, the Lotus, crouching between its outsize wheels with a lunging, on-the-starting-line readiness about...