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King Henry VIII suffered from syphilis which he gave to at least four of his six wives. No. 3, Jane Seymour, mother of puny Edward VI, "died before any such misfortune could befall her." No. 4, ugly Anne of Cleves, escaped because "the marriage was never consummated." Diagnostician Kemble argues that Henry divorced and executed his wives simply in hopes of siring a male heir. . . . "He died primarily from heart failure. Just as his life had been ruled by his syphilitic infection, so his death was occasioned by its ravages upon his heart and blood vessels." In Henry...
...stalking out suspended the session. Twenty minutes later he stalked back to ask suspension of the Independent Labor Party's Buchanan & Campbell Stephen. This was voted, 248-to-53. Home Secretary Sir John Simon resumed his interrupted speech, and all seemed about to go off smoothly when Frederick Seymour Cocks of the Labor Party rose to face Sir John and declare in calm, measured tones: "This Right Honorable Gentleman we all know to be a liar...
Golden mace aloft, Yale University's Provost Charles Seymour this week marched, between bristling rows of the Connecticut militia, through the leafy streets of New Haven to Yale's round-faced, granite Woolsey Hall. Behind him, in robes of green, brown and scarlet, gravely filed Yale's faculty, bound for the 235th annual commencement exercises of the University. To the families and friends of the graduates in their sombre caps & gowns, the occasion marked some 600 important personal milestones in some 600 young lives...
...John William Sterling's money has entirely redecorated the city of New Haven. If anyone typifies the elegance of the nine undergraduate colleges' 28 squash courts, the urbanity of their comfortable common rooms, the easy-going new grace they bring to undergraduate life, it is Provost Charles Seymour, a highly civilized man who edited Colonel Edward M. House's papers, is the master of swank Berkely and looks like suave Cinemactor Frank Morgan. Even so lively an enthusiast for the College Plan as Provost Seymour admits that so far the changes have been residential rather than tutorial...
...their way to chapel at Amherst College, where both are juniors, Henry Stuart Hughes, grandson of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and Charles Whitman Jr., son of New York's onetime Governor Charles Seymour Whitman, were shaken up but escaped injury when a truck bashed into the side of Undergraduate Hughes's automobile...