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...taking as his second wife Louise Vanneck. daughter of U.S. Sculptor Henry Clews. (His first: Janet Aitken. Lord Beaverbrook's daughter.) Though unmentioned in the song, Campbell was even more Top than Mrs. Sweeny. In 1949 he became Duke of Argyll (family motto: "Forget Not"), Chief of Clan Campbell, Hereditary Master of the King's Household in Scotland, Admiral of the Western Coasts and Isles. Hereditary Sheriff of Argyll, Keeper of Dunstaffnage, Carrick, Tarbert and Dunoon Castles, and heir to a Burke's dozen earldoms, viscountcies, marquisates and baronetcies. Favored Four. In 1951, two weeks after...
...land. Now Duvalier is getting in his licks. Dominican nationals in Haiti have been-jailed and savagely beaten; others have disappeared without a trace. One Dominican diplomat was murdered. The Haitian border has been closed to Dominicans for months, and there are persistent reports that members of the Trujillo clan are plotting with Duvalier to assassinate the newly elected Bosch. "There is a conspiracy in Haiti against our democratic government," warned Bosch last week. "We have suffered with great patience, but these outrages must...
...husband has no title and works for a living, but Princess Alexandra, 26, was hardly rewriting Cinderella. Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 34, is the handsome, well-heeled second son of the Earl of Airlie, whose ancient Scottish clan (motto: "To the End") won its English title for supporting Charles I in the Civil War-and lost it for 81 years after fighting with Bonnie Prince Charlie against Alexandra's ancestor, George II. After Eton, Oxford and the Scots Guards, Ogilvy joined the investment firm of Harold Drayton, a self-made London multimillionaire whose interests Ogilvy represents (for $300 weekly...
...material blessings of the Harvard Young Republican Club have increased, the old hard-core conservative clan has dissipated. The club was once a McCarthyite strong hold, even at a time the national Young Republicans were pro-Eisen-hower. As late as two years ago the club Executive Committee meetings went late into the night as one anti progressive resolution after another was moved, feebly protested and passed. Today a heavy majority of the Committee are progressives and they've left off passing the resolutions altogether...
Every year is family year in the Kennedy clan, but 1963 figures to be really outstanding. Bobby's wife Ethel is expecting her eighth in July, and Teddy's wife Joan her third in August. With the new White House arrival, that will make a total of 23 grandchildren for Joe and Rose. Since the Kennedy ladies are stylesetters, it may also be quite chic to be pregnant this summer. Joan and Ethel have bought a couple of closetfuls of creations by Manhattan Designer Nancy Herzlinger, a lithe, attractive mother of four. Her Nan Dee maternity clothes...