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Married. Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 21, dark-haired daughter of the Duke of Alba, enormously wealthy ex-Ambassador to Britain and one of the world's most formidably titled men -six times a duke, 18 times a count, twelve times a marquess, 15 times a grandee of Spain; and Luis Martinez Irujo y Artazcoz, 26, fourth son of the Duke of Sotomayor; in Seville...
...Duke of Windsor was in London for a short visit, but the wedding to which he and the Duchess had not been invited was no longer a live issue; they now planned to find their...
...Duchess of Kent, beauteous widowed sister-in-law of George VI, was assured transportation in fuel-short Britain, come what may. She bought herself a bicycle (and two more for her son and daughter...
Period Sets. Sixty-three-year-old Lion Feuchtwanger is a professional hand at this and a capable one. Writing in pre-Hitler Germany, he used medieval material in The Ugly Duchess, 18th Century Germany in Power (his first U.S. success), 1st Century Rome in his Josephus trilogy. He has worked on Proud Destiny in Santa Monica, where he settled after fleeing Europe in 1940, and the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere in which it was composed. The period sets are painstaking, the main characters are photogenic. With no strain on his attention, the reader can savor from...
Died. Rosamond Lancaster Warburton Vanderbilt, 50, second wife* of the late William K. Vanderbilt II (former president of the New York Central Railroad and brother of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, onetime Duchess of Marlborough); after long illness; in Northport...