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Even the most generous critics agreed that it would have been better for the prestige of British art if Landseer had died young. Yet that was a grace that was denied him. In 1839. when his love of 16 years, the recently widowed Duchess of Bedford, refused to marry him, he suffered a nervous breakdown, and when she died, he went quite balmy. He was at times homicidal (once he nearly killed the duchess' daughter by unceremoniously sitting on her chest as she lay abed with bronchitis). But he lived and painted on and on, dying...
Marriage Revealed. Margaret Wright Bedford Bancroft, 28, dazzling blonde lioness of the undergo international set, Standard Oil (N.J.) millionheiress and partypatetic hostess (sitdown dinner for 60); and Prince Charles d'Arenberg, 55, scion of one of France's first families, whom Peggy once dubbed "my little mouse"; she for the second time, he for the first; in Massachusetts...
...MITRE CORP. (Bedford, Mass.)--all degree levels in engineering; MS and PhD In physics and math for R&D, computer technology. Summer opportunities for graduate men only. Seniors sign up at 54 Dunster St., grads at Pierce...
...Newspapers for Kennedy: the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard Times, whose arch-conservative publisher, Basil Brewer, was Massachusetts campaign manager for Robert Taft in his 1952 drive for the G.O.P. nomination; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Kennedy offers the brighter hope of being able to evoke the burst of national spirit we shall require"). ¶ LIFE endorsed the Nixon-Lodge ticket. Domestically, LIFE praised Nixon as the one more apt to "maintain and advance the American Free Enterprise system." Weighing the candidates on foreign policy, LIFE found "the difference between the two candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded...
Married. John Robert Russell, 43, tax-pinched 13th Duke of Bedford, who since opening his ancestral Woburn Abbey estate to the public in 1955 has entertained more than 2,000,000 visitors-including a nudists' convention-at 35? a head; and Nicole Milinair, 40, comely, cigar-smoking, French-born TV producer and World War II Resistance worker, who remarked upon receipt of her diamond engagement ring: "It's a nice piece of glass, isn't it?"; he for the third time, she for the second; in Ampthill, England...