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They fell in love in Johannesburg. Bennie Hermer was the young resident physician in Durban's King Edward VIII Hospital. Olda Mehr was a concert pianist, pretty, 18, with glowing black eyes. When she won the Royal Music Academy Award in 1938, she sailed for London, promising she would come back in a year to be married...
...rack, swimming, and, by a neat sidestep of the Hays office, in bed with her), Mr. Power gives Miss O'Hara and cinemaddicts an eyeful of his expensive torso. Later he kidnaps her aboard his ship, The Revenge, wolfs roast fowl at her in the Henry VIII manner. She succumbs. She stands by in a petticoat while, in a frenzy of rapiers, broadsides and bloated sails, Jamie-Boy and Governor Morgan liquidate Leech and crew. Occasionally Mr. Power has flashes of Douglas Fairbanks. Most of the time he is just a tougher-than-normal Tyrone Power. The aloof...
When the 1942 Revenue Act finally ground to passage, it contained under Title VIII, Section 801, this sentence: "The term 'excessive profits' means any amount of a contract or subcontract price which is found as a result of renegotiation to represent excessive profits...
...Three U.S. Presidents (Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore) had their summer White House at White Sulphur: 13 visited there. In 1860, the gay Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) came to The White incognito. Fifty-nine years later, his playboy grandson, the Prince of Wales who was to become Edward VIII, repeated the visit...
...Manor type who had divorced his wife, the Lady Emma, second daughter of the Marquess of Bath. There had been a great clatter and clucking at the divorce. His Lordship did not seem to mind the talk. One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said. Their motto was "I seek only...