Miss Mary McCarthy, prosecuting, said Kennedy had lost his temper after meeting them.

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She had eventually learnt of them from the novels of Mary McCarthy who, like Miss Fletcher, had been a student at Vassar.

ECONOMIST: Lucille Fletcher

As one of the organisers of the protest outside the Miss World contest, I was disappointed that Mary Beard did not take the trouble to inform herself of the nature of the protest before giving her opinions on its supposed redundancy.

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She estimated she was travelling at between 30mph and 40mph but Eric Lamb prosecuting argued she drove at "excessive speed" and caused the death of Miss Ashworth, a pupil at King Edward Queen Mary School, Lytham, with her dangerous driving.

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Does Miss Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe in a cardigan at Lady Mary Gaye Curson's party at Claridge's have anything to do with anything?

ECONOMIST: English snobbery

"Anne and Mike were indeed a beautiful couple inside and out, and I miss them terribly already, " said Anne Harris' sister, Mary Miley.

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