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...beautiful black mistress and continued his mischief-making for another 43 years. A fascinating, tragic figure, Jefferson became an inspiration to generations of novelists, poets and composers. Sir Walter Scott used him as the hero of Monticello, and after one apparently jolly dinner at Jefferson's Italian villa, Shelley was moved to write...
...other elections, Scott Falk '85 was chosen as chairman of the committee on academics; Shelley McMillan '83 was voted chairman of the committee of social events; and Jonathan Shapiro '84, was named in an uncontested election to head the committee on students life...
...Shelley Walker, R.N. Des Moines...
...from a calamity, he was inspired: "If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anyone pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity." Some English insults are sharp. Nye Bevan on Anthony Eden: "The juvenile lead." Some are odd. Charles Kingsley called Shelley "a lewd vegetarian." It sounds interesting but is difficult to picture. The top of the line was created by John Wilkes for the Earl of Sandwich...
Sometimes that trademark is chosen deliberately. Shelley Winters, now synonymous with matronly excitability, was an underemployed leading lady of about 35 when Director George Stevens gave her an idea. Says she: "He told me that if I gained 30 Ibs. I could successfully make the transition to leading character actress and I would work all my life." She did, and has since won two Oscars (The Diary of Anne Frank, 1959, and A Patch of Blue, 1965) while acting at varying weights -but "the fat pictures are the ones that are big and successful...