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Schama’s interests led to a summer spent at the British Library, where she stumbled on a set of letters by Theresa Longworth and William Yelverton...
...Longworth and Yelverton married in secret. Soon after, he left her and remarried. The bigamy trial that followed turned Longworth into a celebrity. She capitalized on the fame to travel and write novels...
Many people think foreign cars are better cars. How do you overcome that perception? Joe Longworth SPOKANE, WASH...
...Federal Government, and key Republicans, including TIME co-founder Henry Luce, thought he would be a fresh face for the GOP. Willkie had changed his party registration in 1939, but not all party regulars appreciated the interloper; Willkie's supposedly grass-roots campaign, quipped Washington hostess Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had sprung from the grass of 10,000 country clubs. Still, a tumultuous Republican Convention picked Willkie to be Roosevelt's third opponent...
Amidst the bustling traffic on what is known as the “JFK bridge,” it is easy to overlook two plaques that dedicate the structure to Nicholas Longworth Anderson, a graduate of Harvard in 1858 and soldier in the Civil War. His son hoped the bridge would be “an ever present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater.” Similarly, Soldiers Field, where student athletes practice every day, was named in honor of Civil War veterans...