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Each summer for 16 years, the citizens of Mayenne (pop. 10,000), a river town 150 miles west of Paris, had pleaded with Maggie Mae McRacken, now a 48-year-old widow and a $50-a-week sales-clerk in a Charlotte, N.C., sundries shop, to come and visit them. But for reasons of health, family responsibility, finances and natural reticence, Maggie McRacken never got to Mayenne-until last week. Then, she and the townfolk of Mayenne finally met at the end of an intensely sentimental journey...
...crush-some 3.5 million refugees have streamed out of East Germany since World War II -it is hard to understand how the East German border guards failed to spot lissome, 5-ft. 8-in. Marlene. The West had no such difficulty: she settled in Stuttgart, became a $53-a-week electronics engineer, entered a beauty contest and was elected Miss Germany. Fortnight ago in Miami Beach, Marlene was crowned the 1961 Miss Universe...
Married. Thomas Albert Cronin, 45, silver-haired, carping Crichton who left his $46.80-a-week Kensington Palace post after 25 days because of the bohemian and meddlesome ways of Master Tony Armstrong-Jones, wrote some embarrassing memoirs and migrated to Florida as $300-a-week butler-host of the Dania Jai-Alai Palace; and May Groom, 50, grandmotherly shebeen queen of a London pub; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
Died. Lord McGowan, 87, longtime leading British industrialist and cartel-championing munitions maker ("I have no objection at all to selling arms to both sides; I am not a purist in these things"), a working-class Scotsman (born Harry David McGowan) who started at 15 as a $1.25-a-week office boy with Nobel's Explosives Co., became co-founder and chairman (1930-50) of the monolithic Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.; in London...
Died. Owen Bernard ("Bert") Brennan, 57, rough, tough-talking Teamster Union vice president since 1957, mentor and close friend of Jimmy Hoffa ("the greatest little bastard who ever put a pair of shoes on"); of cancer; in Detroit. A $15-a-week wagon driver who rose by his skill as a skull-cracking labor organizer, Brennan sported a lengthy arrest record (assault, bombing, antitrust violations), co-starred with Hoffa in close-mouthed appearances before the Senate labor-rackets committee...