Word: argylle
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The police were everywhere. Detectives mingled with sunbathers beside Hyde Park's Serpentine Lake, barged into Soho nightclubs, shone lights on the faces of couples necking in cars. Police search parties combed the London docks, held up the departure of two boat trains at Victoria Station, boarded freighters in...
Married. Lady Jeanne Campbell, 35, only daughter of the Duke of Argyll's first marriage, newspaper columnist for her maternal grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook; and John Sergeant Cram III, 31, South Carolina gentleman farmer descended from Financier Jay Gould and Philanthropist Peter Cooper; both for the second time (she divorced...
Divorced. Norman Mailer, 39, novelist (The Naked and the Dead); by his second wife, Jeanne Campbell Mailer, 34, daughter of the Duke of Argyll, and columnist for her grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook; on grounds of incompatibility; after 20 months of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico.
In the course of his investigation, Denning reports, one Cabinet minister asked him to track down "damaging rumors" naming him as the "headless man," an otherwise unidentified corespondent in the Argyll divorce case, who reportedly paid to have his face cropped from pornographic pictures introduced at the trial. The minister...
Headless Man. A reform-minded judge who once declared that "it is impossible to draw the line between crime and sin," Lord Denning, 64, set about his assignment by interviewing 160 Britons, ranging from Harold Macmillan (twice) to Call Girl Mandy Rice-Davies, who gushed: "He's the nicest...