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Married. J. Carter Brown, 41, director of the National Gallery of Art and one of Washington's most eligible bachelors; and Pamela Braga Drexel, 30; both for the second time; in Westminster Abbey, London...
...Norman Harris, 28, and Ronald Baker, 35. It was Baker who wrote That's Where the Happy People Go, the group's biggest hit. They are a congenial trio who have their eyes ever on the latest trend. The Trammps feature the new disco dances like the Abbey (danced in a crouch) and the Sly (mostly a series of jumps, splits and kickouts) and teach them to their audiences. Says Young: "We sort of look at ourselves as the Johnny Appleseeds of disco...
...delegates' hotels are scattered up and down Manhattan, ranging from the Waldorf Astoria at $47 to $66 a night for a double, to the Abbey Victoria at $30 to $33. Early on in the primary season, Carter's forces had been booked into the City Squire Inn. When Carter became the assured winner, his workers demanded-and got-250 rooms in the much larger Americana, a flashy plastic version of Miami Beach set down on Seventh Avenue. Carter and Wife Rosalynn were assigned a five-room suite with a canopied bed on the 21st floor...
...Atlantic. Their elder brother George, one of the few British generals who was popular in the Colonies, was killed fighting near Ticonderoga in 1758 during the French and Indian War. (The colony of Massachusetts even raised £250 to erect the monument to him that now stands in Westminster Abbey...
...quite tough going, with very long sentences," exemplified in books such as The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, and others; and how splendid that the honor was accorded him in a city (London) which had first repelled him as a raw, Hogarthian place, and more precisely, in a cathedral (Westminster Abbey) from which he had once fled because the crowds emitted an odor that "was not that of incense," and that he eventually came to love both places; and how quite exquisitely appropriate that last week, finally, he was recognized with a marble plaque placed in the floor of Poets...