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Though the office, if not the title, of the Lord Chief Justice goes back to 1268, few of its occupants have become so much of a legend in their own lifetime as Rayner Goddard. Unlike one famed predecessor. Sir Edward Coke, he made no great contribution to English law, but his blunt style and sharp knowledge of the law made him one of the most feared and respected men in England. The son of a London solicitor who had heard law around the house since childhood, Goddard, after Oxford, once stood for Parliament as the "Purity Candidate" against...
...through Central Park-until he finally finds Annabel's reincarnation in Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. She is his culture-vulture landlady's daughter in a small New England town where Humbert has holed up to do some literary work. The girl is just a gum-chewing, Coke-filled, comic-book-educated sub-teen-ager -but she is Humbert's fatal love...
...known to no one) are a few hangers-on from the CRIMSON, and, it is hoped, a great many members of the Harvard Summer School. The Summer News is a much more relaxed, informal arrangement than the CRIMSON, and to illustrate how informal, a non-jacket beer-and-coke guzzle will take place at the above-named address this Wednesday night...
...succeed William E. Robinson, 57, who moved up to chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Son of a minister, Alabama-born Talley went to Coca-Cola as a salesman right after Atlanta's Emory University, won a reputation as a topnotch troubleshooter, made his mark in Coke's hierarchy by putting some fizz into the Canadian subsidiary as its president. ¶Edgar A. Jones, 42, was named president of Greyhound's two-year-old Rent-A-Car subsidiary, whose success was largely responsible for a 7% increase in Greyhound's operating revenues...
...Marbury v. Madison 15 years later, Chief Justice John Marshall, like Coke unarmed except for the force of law, determined the right of judicial review over legislative decision, gave breath and blood to the American precedent as "a Government of laws and not of men." So it was also that at the testing time of the Republic. Abraham Lincoln was a man who knew two basic books: the Bible and Blackstone's commentaries...