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Brooks had yet another picture of Isabella Stewart Gardner: "a local Queen Elizabeth, she cut off heads right and left and stuck them on again if it pleased her to do so; and, when the Bostonians called her an upstart, she cut off their ancestral heads by proving that she belonged to the house of Stuart...
...prosecuting attorney in 1940, he sought the Republican nomination. Dewey stumped the nation, headed into the Philadelphia convention as the favorite. But no one had ever leaped from D.A. to presidential candidate, and the party's old pros could not accept the brash, young (38) Eastern upstart. They turned instead to an older, more personable novice: Indiana's Wendell Willkie...
Last week an upstart band of East Coast rivals called the Breed decided to challenge the Angels' preeminence. The arena they chose was a Cleveland motorcycle show. The results, after only 60 sanguinary seconds: four members of the Breed either stabbed to death or dying, including one of two Breed castrated; one Angel, Jeffrey Coffey, 22, of Hartford, Conn., dead. A total of 21 others from both gangs were injured, and 57 were charged with first-degree murder. It was the deadliest rumble in the history of maverick motorcycle gangs...
...upstart group of Harvard graduates, called the Committee of Concerned Alumni, said that Lenzner's election would insure representation of a younger, less traditional constituency...
...Upstart's first edition of about 2000 copies is being financed mostly by the editors. Some money coming from URU's cosponsorship of the films China and One Fourth of Humanity will also help pay for the issue. URU hopes that the magazine will break even after sales...