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...quit his job with RFE, now earns some $800 a month by outside projects, mostly writing German and American screenplays. His take from Munich-Go-Round: $40 a column, a pittance by U.S. standards, but the highest rate in Munich. On his combined earnings, Feehan lives with a stunning, British-born wife in a small house in Munich's fashionable Harlaching suburb. There Feehan throws cocktail parties for hordes of friends and contacts, happily moves through the crowds with a gallon of martinis (8-to-1) in one hand, and a gallon of Manhattans in the other...
...London, the Daily Sketch reported that Princess Margaret would marry a faithful escort and bachelor-in-waiting, Billy Wallace, British-born stepson of U.S. Author Herbert Agar and heir to an iron-and-coal fortune. But Billy and Buckingham Palace denied the report. Meanwhile, down in Venezuela, a faithful escort of yesteryear, R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, was surprised by a photographer while at breakfast aboard a Japanese freighter in the port of La Guaira. After tossing a plateful of fried eggs and chips, rolls and jelly at the man, Townsend recovering his aplomb, said, tightlipped...
Married. Rex Harrison (real name: Reginald Carey Harrison), 49, British-born actor of stage (My Fair Lady) and screen (Anna and the King of Slam); and Kay Kendall (real name: Kay Justine Kendall McCarthy), 31, British cinemactress (Genevieve); he for the third time (his second: Actress Lilli Palmer), she for the first; in Manhattan...
...human compassion and scientific curiosity, drawn onward by the land itself. There was the discoverer of Victoria Falls, David Livingstone, the gentle Scottish medical missionary who went to Africa because an opium war in China kept him from achieving his ambition to go there. There was Henry Stanley, a British-born U.S. reporter, who went to Africa in search of a feature story for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald and stayed to open up the whole Belgian Congo for King Leopold II. Through the doors opened by the explorers came a stream of colonizers and empire builders...
...again in 1870, little the worse for damp and mice. They included no fewer than 150,000 letters, more than 500 account books, 400 insurance policies, numerous ledgers-all of them adding up to a unique record of early Renaissance trade and a remarkable story of an early capitalist. British-born Marchesa Iris Origo (Leopardi: A Study in Solitude-TIME, Aug. 2, 1954) has done a brilliant job of sifting the Datini papers and presenting them for the first time as a biographical study. The theme that runs through her book is the unchanging nature of man, the unchanging sense...