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...would continue to stalk the lands of Europe for as long as King Louis lived (Durant reports that in Scotland the last one was sent to the stake in 1722). But at the same time, Hooke was developing the compound microscope, which transformed the study of the cell; Nicolaus Steno was studying the development of the earth's crust; Olaus Roemer was determining the velocity of light. And John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Civil Government, was proposing a theory of representative government with such eloquence that Oswald Spengler was later to conclude that Locke was the architect...
Only a $15-a-week steno when she sailed from London two years ago, Toni Avril Gardiner, 21, was back home again. As Princess Muna al Hussein, wife of Jordan's King Hussein, she checked into the palatial Dorchester Hotel with 27 satchels of finery, then toured the town in a murmuring maroon Bentley with a Scotland Yard escort on a shopping expedition to buy toys for her five-month-old son. And wasn't it fun to lunch at Buckingham Palace? Said the Princess: "I just hope I don't drop anything-any of those forks...
...stories put on Page One. He had the disconcerting habit of stopping reporters on their way to the typewriter and asking to hear their story. As the newsman talked, a stenographer surreptitiously took down every word. Later, when the reporter turned in his story, Stuffy triumphantly flourished the steno's transcript. "That's the way it should have been written," he said. "Tell your story; don't write it." In two years, accelerated by such tactics, the Star was out in front of its competitors...
They are (left to right): Steven Sonnabend of Wigglesworth, Charles B. Baker. Jr. of Mattews, Ralph Blum of Grays, Allan B. Steno of Straus, Arthur L. Finn of Dudley Commuters Center, Samuel L. Batchelder of Massachusetts , and Daniel L. Ritchio, Jr. of Mower...
...classified ad in a Los Angeles paper was calculated to stir up the wanderlust and unseat the judgment of many a steno with a new Toni...