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...Sydney. Australia, Phyllis Newton was fined $116 after she waylaid her husband on his return from a swim, pelted him with fruit, brass ashtrays, a doorstop, an electric iron, a lemon squeezer, a portable radio and a radiator, then cut up his new suit with a razor and burned his swimming trunks in the stove...
...moon's shadow raced over Greenland, it was waylaid by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Britain's Astronomer Royal and lord of Herstmonceux Castle, now the Royal Observatory. Sir Harold chased the shadow from Greenland to Iceland in an R.A.F. bomber, prolonging his view of totality by 22 seconds as he looked for daylight aurorae. He saw none...
Democratic King. Louis was 18 when Madame de Beauvais. one of his mother's ladies in waiting, waylaid him as he was coming from his bath, and seduced him. After that, Louis was insatiable. According to his sister-in-law, "all women, peasants, chambermaids, servants' daughters, women of quality" had only to pretend they loved him to be received in the royal bed. His Queen. Marie Therese, had to compete with a succession of mistresses and hordes of passing amourettes until she died. Six months later. Louis' mistress, Madame de Maintenon. became his wife...
...staff and start over again, remaking the Mirror as Britain's first popular picture daily. Getting rid of the women, said one of Northcliffe's editors, "was a horrid experience-like drowning kittens. They begged to be allowed to stay. They left little presents on my desk, waylaid me tearfully in the corridors." But the change worked. By 1914, when Northcliffe took vigorous personal control of the London Times (TIME, May 19, 1952) and sold the Mirror to his brother, Lord Rothermere, circulation was more than...
...been designing the men's rooms at a British atomic-research center. Bound for a French vacation, he innocently walks off with the wrong briefcase, containing top-secret plans of a new Abomb. With England in an uproar and security officers searching everywhere for him, Potts is waylaid by Russian agents, plied with vodka, and whisked off to Moscow for what he thinks is a job of applying badly needed improvements to Soviet plumbing...