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Armstrong-Jones, besides being Princess Margaret's husband, is also the Earl of Snowdon and until his career ended in marriage, he was a competent freelance photographer. Weighing all these credentials, Roy Thomson, Canadian-born publisher of 93 papers, had hired Tony as "artistic adviser" to Thomson's prestigious London Sunday Times (circ. 1,022,913). The salary-a reported 7,500 quid ($21,000)-was regal enough on Fleet Street. But the rest of Fleet Street promptly hollered foul...
Jealousy Showing. At first the London Sunday Observer (circ. 727,964), which is challenging the Times's Sunday supremacy, was shocked almost speechless. Its initial notice of the Earl's new job ran 17 deadpan words. Then the Observer's wrath spilled over. "Everyone, including the Observer," observed the Observer, "has said that a royal marriage should not preclude Lord Snowdon from doing work. But we believe he has chosen the wrong kind...
...political moderate, Kuchel is a prime target of the ultraright, partly because he was originally appointed to the Senate by Earl Warren, who ranks at the very top of rightist demonology, and partly because he made a stinging Senate speech last year against the John Birch Society...
...himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent $17 million providing a fitting setting for the homes of such notables as Henry Ford II and the Earl of Dudley...
Given two days to live when he was hospitalized just over a month ago with an ulcer and a heart attack, Britain's former Prime Minister Earl Attlee, 79, was well enough last week to return...