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...simply no choice but to marry. It was either marriage to a suitable princess by order of his father George III, or something very like debtors' prison. With his elegantly tailored back to the wall, Prinney picked Caroline of Brunswick, his father's niece, sight unseen. He believed her to be the lesser of two evils-the other being any one of his mother's relatives whom he had seen. The Prince's first glance at the buxom Princess revealed his mistake...
...testimony the all-male, blue-ribbon jury took just three hours, nine minutes to find Broady guilty. In spite of the verdict, though, most of New York's 2,000,000 telephone subscribers were having trouble getting over that uncomfortable feeling that they might be addressing a large, unseen audience every time they answered the phone...
...Great Mountain. To Julie, this was Joan; but to Anouilh, Joan was "the lark" -a spirit of "unbodied joy" that sings down out of unseen height upon the desperate world and lifts the human heart up to its hope. Julie set grimly to work, 15 hours a day, to reconcile these opposites in her performance. At the first run-through she had such power that a critical audience of theatrical professionals was sobbing unashamedly at the final line. At the Boston opening the critics cried "tremendous," but one of them fairly noted that she was sometimes "a little childish." Under...
Black Angus, White Fence. Then it was a tired, 189-acre dairy farm, worked for 30 years by Allen S. Redding. Sight unseen, Ike paid $23,000 for Redding's house and land. He split operating costs with famed Presidential Jester George E. Allen, who owns a nearby 80-acre farm, then left for Paris to command NATO. Until he returned to become President, the farm, its topsoil worn away in supporting Redding's 42 milch cows and heifers, was a losing proposition. Ike sold his share of the operation to Allen, who switched it to grassland cultivation...
When U.S. forces invaded Okinawa on Easter Sunday in 1945, some divisions were assigned to hit the beaches and engage the known enemy, the Japanese army, while others were held aboard ships bobbing offshore, as replacements for men expected to be knocked out of battle by a second enemy, unseen and almost unknown. In that campaign, however, this unknown enemy held his fire. In Tokyo, later, occupation forces set up a special headquarters near the Imperial Palace to direct operations against the stealthy killer. By 1950 they thought they had him cornered, but then Red aggression gave him the chance...