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...deplored nonconformists, Lord Hugh objected in 1938 to Unitarian Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's advising the Crown on the appointment of Anglican bishops, observed darkly: "If we lived in the reign of King Henry VIII, a Unitarian would not be in Downing Street. He would be burned at Smithfield...
Below the Salt. The barefoot Venus of Smithfield, N.C. was in some respects an excellent match for the Little Lord Fauntleroy of Hoboken. They had come from well below the salt, and they loved the high life at the head of the table. Ava, who had been chastened in two marriages and on the analytic couch as well, saw through her martini glass more darkly than did Frank. "If I were a man," she told him, "I wouldn't like me." But Frank liked her very much indeed, left home to keep her stormy, full-time company, finally persuaded...
...royal couple shook 2,000 hands at the Greek ambassador's reception, then hurried on to Secretary Dulles' official dinner. Queen Frederika, wearing a cream satin gown, a diamond coronet and the Greek army's Cross of Bravery, bravely tackled the lobster thermidor, roast pheasant, Smithfield ham mousse, marron bombe on nests of spun sugar and three wines. Next morning Their Majesties were up early for a whirlwind tour of the Naval Academy at Annapolis...
...wearing on a chain around her neck a miniature Oscar he gave her. She claims that women are not jealous of her, pays no attention to the fact that her women friends regard her as a bit on the calculating side. She is a farmer's daughter from Smithfield, N.C. (pop. 3,678). When Ava was two, her father lost his farm and became a tenant farmer. Ava loved to run about barefoot, and is still apt to appear at parties carrying her shoes. She climbed trees and smoked cigarettes behind the barn with the boys...
...strand began in the middle of the 19th Century when Thomas Mellon left his father's farm at nearby Poverty Point and on Smithfield Street hung out his shingle as a lawyer. He knew all the laws on foreclosures and he traded in other men's recklessness. In 1870 he had founded T. Mellon & Sons and had gone into private banking. Into this enterprise went two of his shrewdest sons-Andrew William and Richard Beatty...