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Married. Princess Antoinette Louise Alberte Suzanne Grimaldi, 40, dark, svelte first lady of Monaco until her brother, Prince Rainier, wedded (as she put it) "that movie star"; and Jean Charles Rey, 47, debonair Monaco lawyer; both for the second time (Antoinette is divorced from roving Riviera Tennis Pro Aleco Noghes); in a civil ceremony at The Hague witnessed by her mother, Princess Charlotte, but not by Rainier...
...three, though, Alain Delon, who established his reputation as Rocco in Rocco and His Brothers, is the most impressive as the debonair but homicidal protagonist lusting for "le meilleur." The entire design to murder Philippe develops unspoken in his eyes, where greed and hatred of a tormentor become obviously irresistible...
...Church Control. That might spell grief, but New College has advantages. One is debonair Philip H. Hiss, 51, a prosperous Sarasota real estate man and now chairman of New College's board of trustees. A jack-of-all-arts who never went beyond prep school (Choate), Hiss satisfied his itch to be an architect by designing his own Sarasota home, a $200,000 waterfront edifice of ceramic brick and blue aluminum. In 1953, appalled at the state of Sarasota schools, Hiss wound up as the first Republican elected to the school board since Reconstruction days. Result: a Hiss-bred...
...keep shop. Founders Judkyn and Pratt picked Ian McCallum, then executive editor of Britain's Architectural Review, and debonair Briton who is fascinated by American architecture both good and bad. Says Curator McCallum: "There is a quite amazing ignorance which exists in Britain of America's cultural past-and present, for that matter." He thinks that the museum, by putting "history into the fourth dimension in a way that films and even books can't do," may shed some light...
...that saga goes back to 1793, when a debonair Frenchman named Jean Pierre Blanchard ascended from the yard of Philadelphia's Walnut Street prison in a balloon, accompanied by a small, whimpering dog. While President George Washington and hundreds of Philadelphians craned their necks in amazement, Blanchard panicked a squadron of pigeons and drifted nonchalantly out of sight. After 46 minutes in the air, he plopped down in a woodland 15 miles away and placated the scared natives with wine...