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...Castelot chose to do in Queen of France. His biography of Marie Antoinette scarcely hints at the desperate conditions that bred the French Revolution and doomed the King and Queen. Castelot is interested only in the Queen, whose flawless complexion, royal bearing and gilded extravagance made her the peerless symbol of aristocratic absolutism. For a symbol is all that Marie Antoinette ever was; and even if she had never squandered millions on jewelry, chateaux, make-believe villages and elaborate carnivals, the deluge would still have come, forced from below by sufferings as real and deep as her own pleasures were...
...Merryns, the stately home of Lord and Lady Cedely, he shed a footman's livery and became Edward, the beloved family retainer ("Six foot of superb young animal. If he was a horse, I'd give three hundred guineas for him," said his lordship). He had a peerless touch with silver teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him. Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern, a rather dishonorable hussy. With blind folly, Shrewsbury threw away his perfect character in Merryns...
...Peerless at Princeton. Listerine was the creation of Lambert's father, a chemist who developed the antiseptic formula (useful in that it was bland and harmless to skin and other tissue). Father Lambert scraped together sufficient funds to get to London and there "invested his last dollar in an elegant carriage with a liveried coachman." Helped by this haughty equipage, he coaxed from Lord Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, the right to christen the new formula with the great man's name...
...shoot the whole mess through a window and out into the street." He recalls: "It did not seem at all odd to have five rooms and finally, in my junior year, to have a limousine with a chauffeur . . . Now and then [the chauffeur would] drive me in my Peerless limousine . . . from my rooms to chapel, a mere few hundred yards. This affectation gave me great delight...
Next day, overcoming the judges with a peerless exhibition, the women's defending champion, comely Pat McCormick, 26, a California housewife, spun through intricate optional dives, performed a final running full-twisting forward one-and-a-half somersault that was good enough to add the platform title to her springboard victory and make her the first diver ever to win both titles in two Olympics. This was slim pickings, indeed, compared to Russia's sweep of 11 of the 17 gold medals in gymnastics, three of which were won by lovely Larisa Latynina...