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Married. George Henry Hubert Las-celles, 44, Earl of Harewood and 18th in line to the British throne; and Patricia Tuckwell Shmith, 38; in New Canaan, Conn, (see MODERN LIVING...
Also, in this New World, up popped a fairy godmother, a divorcee named Ruth Lapham Lloyd, who was heiress to a Texas oil fortune. To provide the lord with a proper setting for the wedding, she turned over her somewhat unkempt Elizabethan garden and 300-acre New Canaan, Conn., estate and manor house known as Waverny. Then, so that the lord should be untroubled at his nuptials, only eight guests were invited, including one local photographer, and the details were leaked only to the nation's leading tabloid society reporter...
...destiny-a feeling that greatness has always been inevitable. Onetime Dictator (1930-45) and President (1951-54) Getulio Vargas cried: "We are marching toward a new future different from all we know." "We are doomed to greatness,"' lamented President Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-61). "This is the land of Canaan, unlimited and fecund," said President Jánio Quadros, who only held office for seven months in 1961 and who also rashly declared: "In five years Brazil will be a great power." Everytime they strike up their national anthem, Brazilians join in a chorus of self-hypnotic confidence...
...York-New Jersey-Connecticut area remains the center of paddle-tennis activity. Such country clubs as Greenwich's Stanwich, Rye's Manursing Island and New Canaan's Country Club like paddle tennis because, though the courts cost $5,000 apiece, they are cheap to maintain and keep the club open year-round. Individuals build courts too: Philip Morris President Joseph Cullman III, for example, has two courts on his Briarcliff Manor estate, normally entertains a dozen paddle-playing guests each weekend throughout the winter. All told, the American Platform Tennis Association estimates, there are some 500 courts...
...second place slalom trophy went to Jim O'Regan of Canaan College. O'-Regan, a class B skier, finished...