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Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was speaking before London's Constitutional Club, a blue-blood and blue-chip Tory audience which applauded him rousingly. Socialists complained that he had infringed "the rights of Her Majesty's Parliament" by airing "important policy" before a private group, but such constitutional niceties were soon submerged in debate over what his lordship...
Richard Savage, the poet, is almost a nonentity. But Savage as the friend of Pope and Samuel Johnson becomes a highly important figure in early eighteenth century English literature. And as the claimant to the title of "bastard son of the late Earl Rivers" he has created an aura of wonder which approaches an unfinished fairy tale...
Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight and Robert G. Alderman shared the same noble purpose in life, that of making Knight governor of California. For more than four years, they toured the state together in a breathless, exhausting effort to reach their goal. When Earl Warren moved to the Supreme Court last October, Lieutenant Governor Knight moved into the governor's office, and Executive Secretary Alderman, a onetime child actor, went right along with him. It became, in fact, a bit difficult to tell just who was occupying the governor's chair...
...murder of Sweden's King Gustavus III at a masquerade in the Stockholm Opera House, but in 19th century Italy, a direct reference was impolitic. So Verdi and his librettist shifted the shenanigans to colonial Boston, disguised the King as Britain's colonial governor, "Riccardo, Earl of Warwick...
Muscle for Buick. Credit for the new cars goes to President Curtice and Design Boss Harley Earl. At 60, Curtice is probably the best auto salesman in the world, though he never personally sold a car in his life. He believes that style, plus power and the razzle-dazzle send-off of the Motorama, is the way to sell cars. When Curtice became Buick boss in 1933, Buick was making only 40,621 cars a year, and buyers turned up their noses at the design...