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Born. To George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe, 32, First Secretary of Britain's Washington embassy, son of the admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland,* and Countess Jellicoe, 31: their third child, first son. Name: Patrick John (Viscount Brocas). Weight...
...half during the semi-final match for the West Sussex Polo Cup, the Royal Navy's Admiral Earl Mountbatten and his nephew Prince Philip took time out to chat with Countess Mountbatten (see cut). Final score: Beechwood 3½, Royal Navy 1, with Philip scoring the navy's one & only goal...
...Paris in 1775, Capriccio concerns a poet and a musician, each insistent on his own primary importance. They both court a widowed countess, ask her to make her choice. Her pat decision: she has no right to take either because they belong together...
...British press was atwitter over the rumor that Princess Margaret had set her heart on marrying the tall, red-haired Earl of Dalkeith, 26, heir to the well-to-do Scottish Duke of Buccleuch. (The title dates from 1663, when Anne, Countess of Buccleuch, married the Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of Charles II.) Newspaper gossipists spoke well of the Earl's record at Eton, Oxford and in the Royal Navy, observed complacently that "the blood of the Stuarts is to be found in both." But at week's end, Buckingham Palace remained majestically mum. The Earl...
...Rome's Church of St. Augustine, a requiem mass commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Benito Mussolini was attended by the dictator's widow, Donna Rachele, son Romano and daughters Anna Maria and Countess Edda Ciano. The black-clad Mussolini family stood throughout the long ceremony while a cordon of police surrounded the church. Arrested: one student who shouted "Viva Mussolini!" above the voices of the singers...