Word: duchesses
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...Beach millionaires-it can just as easily be gratuitous. Last week the First Tuesday segments dealt with a weight-reducing "fat farm" and a Christian anti-Communist crusade. Both fell into the void between irony and farce. Harry Reason-er's 60 Minutes visit with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor was stretched for 20 minutes- and then its mood was shattered by one of the show's sophomoric "Digressions," involving inane wisecracks from a pair of silhouettes. Like many TV news shows, the magazines resort to seemingly significant film clips-slum dwellers lounging on doorsteps, bearded students...
...gloomy!" she cried to friends gathered at the small cafe in Madrid. "When I get out, we will go to the country and roast a lamb." With that, Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo Maura, 32, Duchess of Medina Sidonia, crossed the street to a courthouse to begin serving a one-year prison sentence. The duchess, whose title* is one of the most venerated in her country, was convicted of illegal protest when she led the villagers of Palomares on a protest trip to Madrid on the first anniversary of the crash of a U.S. bomber bearing a load...
...party in Paris was called "A Night of Love," and there were those redoubtable romancers, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, he ever so mod in white turtleneck, dancing till...
Married. Margaret Atkinson Loughborough Biddle, 53, widow since 1961 of former U.S. Ambassador to Spain Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, and duchess of Philadelphia's Main Line; and Colonel Edwinston Robbins, 64, retired Air Force officer and longtime friend of the Biddle clan; in a civil ceremony performed in the Temple University chapel in Philadelphia...
Married. Anna Anderson, 67, who has spent a lifetime seeking to prove that she is in reality the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Russia's murdered Czar Nicholas II; and John E. Manahan, 49, former university lecturer who has backed her case for a decade; she for the second time; in Charlottesville...