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...trumpeters announcing the roast beef. Moist-eyed press lords bawled Happy Birthday to You and Land of Hope and Glory. All of which seemed only proper for a party given by Roy Thomson, the Canadian-born press lord who owns more newspapers than anyone else, for Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, another Canadian-born press lord, who long since established himself as one of journalism's greats...
Graham Sutherland began his career as an engineer, and underneath his soft brushwork there still are ruled lines that lend a cubistic solidity to his work. He has designed posters, ceramics, a tapestry for the new Coventry cathedral. His portraits of Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, Lord Beaverbrook are masterful interpretations of character. But when Sutherland works impulsively, he always returns to surreal scenes of natural forms, 25 of which went on view last week in Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg & Co. galleries...
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 Novelist Norman Mailer in December); somewhere in Maryland...
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...
...black Humber approached along the Mall. The man in the rear seat was a stranger; a private detective, it turned out. But the faintly smiling, aristocratically fair features of the man beside the driver were familiar enough. "It's Lord Home!" came the amazed shouts. "Astonishing!" gasped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard...