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Five hundred and eighty years ago there was recorded in the household account book of Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster, the wife of Edward III's third son, the purchase for a lad named Geoffrey Chaucer of one paltock, a pair of red and black breeches, and a pair of shoes. Thus did the Father of English Poetry, as he has been heroically emblazoned for schoolboys of the world, enter history. Adorned in his new garments, the youth accompanied the retinue of the pretty countess as she moved in medieval splendor between the great houses of England. He attended court festivities...
...that time old Senator Sharon was dead of worry, and Terry was a lonely widower. The lawyer soon married his beauteous client. They made a formidable pair. During her divorce suit she had made everybody nervous by fingering a pearl-handled revolver in her handbag while a court examiner was hearing testimony. "I can hit a fourbit piece nine times out of ten," she remarked, where upon the unfortunate examiner adjourned the hearing, appealed to the court for protection. When the Sharon heirs brought suit in Federal circuit court to cancel Sarah Althea's claims, the Terrys took front...
...rich, 32-year-old Yaleman William Edward Boeing tired of his family's lumber business in Seattle, hired Glenn Martin to teach him to fly. Two years later, Bill Boeing smashed his pontoons in landing. Unable to get a new pair at once, he set out to make them himself, ended up by building a whole new plane in a one-room factory with 30 employes. It turned out so well that the Army asked for some like it. Somewhat to his own surprise, Bill Boeing agreed to make them. When the Armistice abruptly killed all military contracts...
...give up his none too successful painting. Harvard University sponsors were surprised some years ago when they arranged an exhibition of Sandy Calder's work, sent a truck to carry the statues to the exhibition hall and found no one at the station but Sculptor Calder with a pair of pliers in his pocket, a roll of wire over his shoulder...
...managing mother Sophie thought it high time for him to marry. Sophie and her sister Ludovika, an ambitious German duchess, put their heads together, agreed that young Franz could do much worse than wed Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helen. In the ensuing royal houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone but Helen's younger sister, 15-year-old Sisi. Sisi was a tomboy, but so pretty she made Helen appear a gawk. Franzi fell in love with...