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Ever since he wrote the opinion in the 1954 school case, the mere mention of Chief Justice Earl Warren has been enough to redden the neck of any good segregationist. When Warren agreed to speak last week in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, authorities began preparing for trouble...
...Scarcely had Leonardo's Mona Lisa been removed from its shrouding of maroon drapery (which the gallery force had christened "Mona's kimona"), when a courtly ceremony took place in Washington's National Gallery. Italian Chargé d'Affaires Gian Luigi Milesi Ferretti, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General Robert Kennedy stood before a throng of art enthusiasts to unveil two small paintings on wood illustrating the labors of Hercules by the 15th century Italian painter Pollaiuolo, recently recovered in California after having been stolen from the Uffizi by the Nazis during World...
...Born and schooled in Flatbush, Woody flunked out of N.Y.U. and C.C.N.Y. in the same year. But at 17, he was already a success, writing gags for newspaper columnists. Earl Wilson mentioned his name to a show business public relations firm, and Woody was soon writing TV jokes for Herb Shriner, Peter Lind Hayes, Sid Caesar, Art Carney, Garry Moore. In one two-year period (he says) he wrote 25,000 gags. He now gets $1,500 for supplying a comedian with a five-minute...
...easy step from making news for others to report to making and reporting his own news. Three years ago, a suburban London daily hired Boofy as a columnist. The column caught the alert eye of Editor C. R. Willis of the News. and the Earl moved into the big time...
...suppose I personify the dotty English peer," says the Earl of Arran. "A lot of my friends don't like it. They think I've let the side down." But Boofy likes it, and so do his readers, especially when he examines the relationship between hunting and sex among the British upper classes ("Horses lead to divorces") and reconstructs a passionate conversation after a hunt: "Gad, you went well today." "Gad, you're going well now." "Gad. you're a sportsman...