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Married. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman Jr., 28, Harvard-bred son of Liberia's President; and Wokie Rosalind Tolbert, 23, pretty, English-educated daughter of Liberian Vice President William Tolbert; at Bensonville, Liberia, in a ceremony performed by (among other clergymen) the father of the bride, who doubles as pastor of the local Zion Praise Baptist Church...
...itch to be an architect by designing his own Sarasota home, a $200,000 waterfront edifice of ceramic brick and blue aluminum. In 1953, appalled at the state of Sarasota schools, Hiss wound up as the first Republican elected to the school board since Reconstruction days. Result: a Hiss-bred splurge of handsome new buildings that made Sarasota one of the best-designed school systems in the U.S. (TIME...
Died. Maria Luisa de Arana Duke. 39, Madrid-bred descendant of Spanish nobility, third wife of State Department Protocol Chief (and tobacco heir) Angier Biddle Duke, graceful giver of benefit parties in Washington and New York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...
...every one of his favorite types; there's the self-made S. B. Clemens-ish Tycoon, the capable Mother, the daring Young Thing, an impossible Suitor for her, a pious Burglar, a graying Aristocrat, and, of course, the "independent" Foreign Lady who can comment caustically on anything the home-bred figures miss. And, then, they all talk--Lord, how they talk: two straight hours of chatter as each character rises hungrily in turn, like a guppy at the food in a goldfish bowl, to strike his pose and horrify at least a good 1/9th of the audience...
This gives Author Ian Brook (a pseudonym) plenty of opportunity to rib the retreating Empire right up to No. 10 Downing Street, and to fire deft, satiric shots at everybody from an American anthropologist studying illiteracy among Alabasa's albinos to the new class of boorish, lawyer-bred African politicians ("The Prime Minister of the Colony laughed and picked at the hard skin on the ball of his foot"). Except for a dramatically faulty attempt to give Jimmy a realistic love affair, out of keeping with the otherwise admirably sustained, two-dimensional tone of spoof, Jimmy Riddle emerges...