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...sister, a Mrs. Donald Crawford, who suddenly informed her husband that she had been "ruined" by Sir Charles. What's more, she told him that Sir Charles had taught her "every French vice" and had persuaded her to play three-in-a-bed with himself and his housemaid. Mr. Crawford thereupon decided to sue his wife for divorce and to name Sir Charles as corespondent. Dilke duly protested that he had never laid a finger on Mrs. Crawford, but he knew that the prudish Victorian public would not believe him. So did Gladstone. He quietly dropped Dilke...
...high places has lately been striking the Greek Orthodox Church with disturbing frequency. In 1962 the new Archbishop of Athens resigned shortly after his election to that primatial office upon being exposed as a homosexual; two years later, Bishop Philippos of Drama was dethroned for adultery with his housemaid. Now a much more widespread scandal has shocked Greece. This time the fuss is not about sex but that other great fascinator: money...
...flowers that fill Chagall's home in Vence you report: "The moment they begin to fade, the artist prods his wife to throw them out." The contrasting attitude of Pierre Bonnard is interesting. In an interview some years after Bonnard's death, his longtime housemaid said that one of her despairs was the master's way with the bouquets she brought in from the garden daily. Not until they were ready to throw out did he show interest in them; then, when that first shine was off and petals were falling, he began to paint them...
...like them around the muddy Mersey, where he went to medical school. Dr. Swift reported in the A.M.A. Journal that the knobs were benign tumors, made up mainly of an overgrowth of the horny layer of the skin. They were not to be confused with the socially less acceptable housemaid's knee, which is a bursitis. Dr. Swift saw no reason for surgical removal of the knobs. He noted that they usually went away after the first few weeks of the fall semester, when undergraduate surfers are landbound...
According to the Associated Press, a housemaid discovered Williams' body when she went to make up his room. She reported finding a towel draped over his face and more towels stuffed against the base of the door. The windows were closed. A coroner's inquest is expected to be held next week...