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Steaming gruel, juicy lamb chops, southern -cooked biscuits, crisp bacon all went into Room 19 and came back almost untouched. Doctors, nurses, urged the patient to eat, but Earl Carroll would only turn his head away, answer: "I can't, I can't." In some two months his weight had dropped from 145 to 130 pounds. Propped up on his pillows, eyes closed, long wisps of hair straggling across his high forehead, he lay in what one observer called a state of "cell shock," his mind apparently focussed on the prison sentence that lay before...
...train time drew near Chargé d'Affaires Rosengolz kissed Mr. Lansbury, Mr. Saklatvala and many another in the usual continental fashion?on both cheeks. Then he launched into a farewell speech, mentioning Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill by name, and calling them the statesmen chiefly responsible for "this unwarranted, insane step" by the Cabinet...
...Daughter of the late Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan of the U. S. Supreme Court; sister of John Maynard Harlan, able Chicago lawyer; aunt of Assistant U. S. District Attorney John Marshall Harlan of New York, successful prosecutor of Earl Carroll, perjurer...
...certain Admiral. The affair came to nothing; and it is notable that His Majesty has not given an ever willing public the opportunity to forgive a few royal indiscretions beneath the rose. In other respects the King and Emperor is a Navy man to his fingertips. Admiral Earl Beatty and a few other titled salts are among his closest friends...
...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...