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Until something flossier came along, everyone agreed that the marriage of "Toodie" to David was Washington's biggest wedding of the year. Inside Connecticut Avenue's old greystone National Presbyterian Church, 700 invited guests witnessed the marriage of Mrs. Romaine Dahlgren Pierce Simpson (Manhattan divorcee) to Britain's David Michael Mountbatten, the Marquess of Milford Haven, a second cousin of King George VI. Traffic was held up for blocks around, and the crowd outside treated the newlyweds like movie stars when they left the church. Among the prominent guests: ex-King...
Married. David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, 30; and Socialite Romaine Dahlgren Pierce ("Toodie") Simpson, 26; she for the second time; in Washington (see PEOPLE...
Mark III, which was begun in May, 1946, has been built for the Bureau of the Ordnance of the U. S. Navy to be used at the Naval Proving Ground Command at Dahlgren, Virginia. It is anticipated that testing operations will have been completed by the first of the year and the machine will go to the Navy at that time...
With a minimum of whoopdedo, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis graduated it's first Negro. Conspicuous in the spread of crisp white uniforms at Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown...
Mark II, the Aiken Relay Calculator, has reached its final destination and operating post at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren Virginia, after a three year residence in the Computation Laboratory here...