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Divorced. Madeleine Carroll, 59, beauteous British-born star of the 1930s and '40s (The Thirty-Nine Steps, Café Society); by Andrew Heiskell, 49, board chairman of Time Inc.; on grounds of desertion; after 15 years of marriage, one child; in Litchfield, Conn...
...products, including a breakfast cereal called Maypo. Through acquisitions, the success of its products and some high-powered promotion, the company has boosted its sales from $37 million a decade ago to a record $136 million in the last fiscal year. Its boss is John G. Martin, 59, the British-born grandson of one of the original Heubleins, who owns 10% of the company (which he runs with the help of President Ralph Hart) and likes to sip Bell's twelveyear-old Scotch, another of the products that Heublein distributes...
Dangerous Illusions. "I don't want to turn out a bunch of little cynics," says British-born Raymond English, 47, chief planner of the new social-studies course, "but contemporary children entering school have far greater knowledge of social problems than an educator of 30 years ago would have dreamed of. They are aware that their parents pay taxes for schools, police and garbage disposal. They hear about race riots and space flights. We must teach facts at the lower grades so that teachers in the upper grades won't have to spend time erasing an illusionary picture...
Wagons & Hampers. Morgan dollars, named for their British-born designer George T. Morgan, were minted between 1878 and 1921. The collector's-item Morgans range from an 1878 minted at Carson City, which sells for about $10, to the 1893 San Francisco, currently worth...
While she peeked at the classroom visitor, the typing student idly pecked: CARY CARY CARYYYYYYYYYYYYY. It was squealsville at Washington's Shaw Junior High School. Suave and swellegant Cary Grant, 59, quickly toured the building, averaged a swoon a room. The British-born actor was in town to campaign for the privately sponsored Stay-in-School Fund, dropped in on the overcrowded, predominantly Negro classes to get an idea of what causes dropouts. Wasn't he a dropout himself? someone asked. Perish the thought, replied Cary, whose formal education ended at the age of 13. "I was expelled...