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...College of William and Mary in Virginia, the guests included Chief Justice Earl Warren and his British counterpart, Lord Chief Justice Goddard. Members of the Virginia judiciary were there, as well as such celebrities as Arthur Lehman Goodhart, master of University College, Oxford, and Judge Harold Medina. The notables had come to honor three great jurists: Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and George Wythe, who 175 years ago was appointed by William and Mary to the first chair of law in the U.S. But though the tributes to these three were the purpose of the ceremony, the center of attraction...
...DARK LADY, by Cothburn O'Neal (313 pp.; Crown; $3.50). A quaint "theory" about who really wrote Shakespeare's plays: it was a woman, Rosaline de Vere, illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Oxford. What with the prejudice of the day and Rose's being a poor defenseless bit of a thing, Actor Will obligingly markets the plays with the Globe Theatre and signs his name to them. Rose meanwhile dashes off a great many billets-doux in the form of very quotable sonnets to her true love, the Earl of Southampton. The book is clearly marked...
...Liberty to Know. Chief Justice Earl Warren spoke at the dedication of the American Bar Association's new American Bar Center in Chicago. Said he: "It is fitting that we have this dedicatory service in a house of God [i.e., the University of Chicago chapel]. Here we give notice to all that, in the world struggle between the forces of freedom and the godless totalitarian state, we rededicate ourselves to the principle that God's way is our way. It is [also fitting] that the site for our home [adjoins] one of the great universities of the world...
...Ping") Ferry, 43, son of Packard Motor Car Co.'s onetime Board Chairman Hugh J. Ferry. A former teacher and newsman, Ferry worked with the International Labor Organization, OPA and the C.I.O.-P.A.C. during New Deal days. In 1945 he joined Manhattan's public relations firm of Earl Newsom & Co., where his duties included writing speeches for Henry Ford II and doing "think work" for the Ford Foundation. He is, says Hutchins, "the kind of man I need for vice president ... an interesting and interested...
...from Livingston, N.J., shot a steady 14-under-par for a null total of 274 to win the Tam O'Shanter World Championship of Golf and a first prize worth $100,000 in cash and exhibition fees. Tied for second, just one stroke and $90,000 behind: Texan Earl Stewart and New Yorker Jack Burke...