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...coronet. While only one in 15 marriages between commoners breaks up in Britain, seven of 25 of Britain's nonroyal dukes have been to the divorce court, and three of these-Leinster, Leeds and Argyll-have been there more than once. Last week the Duke of Bedford, 42, was in the middle of divorce proceedings started by his Duchess No. 2. In Edinburgh last week, Argyll, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and Salesman of Argyll Socks in all the ads, was trying to shed Duchess No. 3. Fortnight earlier, the Duchess of Bedford's sister...
...TRIAL OF DOCTOR ADAMS, by Sybilla Bedford. A retelling of the headline-famed case of England's Dr. John Bodkin Adams, acquitted of committing murder by drugs, this book shows what a fine novelist (The Legacy) can take back from a courtroom. Author Bedford raises the sensational to the dramatic. Her greatest triumph: sustaining suspense when all the time the reader knows the outcome...
...Harrington family is slightly non-U and wholly nonunified. Father (Roland Culver) is a self-made furniture manufacturer, all the more defensively crass and philistine because of his contemptuously snobbish, culture-climbing wife (Jessica Tandy) and his contemptuous, muddled mamma's lap dog of a son (Brian Bedford...
...vice chairman of several Kaiser companies, and D. A. ("Dusty") Rhoades, new president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. When Henry J. won a contract to build the main spillway dam at Bonneville, Ore. in the mid '30s, he turned the job over to Edgar, then 25, and Clay Bedford, a boyhood chum, who is now general manager of Kaiser Aircraft & Electronics. Swift currents and widely varying water levels made the job a tough problem-but the dam was finished a year ahead of schedule...
When, in 1935, as a teaching assistant in the Government department, Latham was offered a grant from the Social Science Research Council, he accepted it because it provided him with an opportunity to travel. "I was born in Massachusetts (New Bedford) and at the time I had never been as far west as the Connecticut River." As for the grant itself, he explains, "You know, it was one of those grants where you travel around the United States and sort of study the rotundity of the earth...