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...fine points of one of the oddest cases in British legal history-the sort of legal conundrum that could exist only in a country that still has titles and a nobility. The two opposing claimants in the case sat stone-faced in the chamber, refusing to meet each other: Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 54, a prosperous London theater producer, and John Hugo Trenchard Russell, 25, an accountant who may-or may not-be Geoffrey's half brother...
...case, in fact, hinged upon that relationship. The nine peers, constituting a Committee of Privileges, were to decide whether John or Geoffrey should be honored with the title of fourth Baron Ampthill, a hereditary peerage John is the son of the third Baron Ampthill by his third wife. Geoffrey, who now holds the title, was born during the third baron's marriage to his first wife. The bizarre story behind John's challenge is that Geoffrey's mother was, by her own testimony and expert medical opinion a virgin when Geoffrey was born...
...Britain's most publicized scandals of the early 1920s, a story that has since been tagged as "The Case of the Virgin Birth." It involved a tall young aristocrat, John ("Stilts") Russell then heir to the Ampthill title, his vivacious and liberated wife Christabel and her baby Geoffrey, who was born in October 1921. Soon after Geoffrey's birth, John Russell filed for divorce charging that the baby could not possibly be his. He claimed that he and his wife had agreed before the wedding to lead separate lives and leave the marriage unconsummated...
Healey had probably gone about as far as any Labor Chancellor could ever be expected to go. Nonetheless, the Confederation of British Industries denounced the program as "too little, too late." Tory Shadow Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe called it "a devastating admission of the government's huge mistakes in the past." The drastic austerity plan, said Liberal Party Spokesman Richard Wainwright, was the price for "years of debauchery conducted on tick [credit]"-Britain's version of the installment plan. Though left-wing Laborites denounced the White Paper as a "document of shame," other party stalwarts were more sympathetic...
...highlights for the Crimson were sweeps in the high jump, led by co-captain Mel Embree's 6 ft. 10 in. hop, and the triple jump, in which Hali Kayali paced the event with an effort of 46 ft. 10 1/2 in. Other Crimson first place honors went to Geoffrey Stiles in the pole vault and to the mile relay team...