Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second wife (the former Mrs. G. Huntington Hartford, who succeeded Joan Crawford) have been more & more selective about the guests they choose to share their dining room. Abandoned are the ostentatious parties for 300 or more which Doug once gave in honor of such friends as Noel Coward and Earl Mountbatten of Burma. At No. 28, The Boltons, in fashionable South Kensington, the Fairbankses now confine themselves to more intimate affairs with a guest list whittled down to a mere 30 or 40. "There's no point in inviting people you don't get a chance to visit...
...Viscount Cunningham, former First Sea Lord and hero of the Mediterranean, will carry St. Edward's crown into the Abbey; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein will bear the royal standard; Viscount Portal, World War II Air Chief of Staff, will bear the scepter with the cross; and Earl Alexander of Tunis, Defense Minister, will carry the orb, a golden globe with jeweled cross, symbolic of the sovereignty of Christ...
...Associated British Pathé; Stratford Pictures Corp.) is the pleasant sort of camera romp that the British do so frequently and so well. The action takes place in an ancient, crumbling Scottish edifice that is "held up only by the ivy." Among its occupants: the impoverished 19th Earl of Locharne (David Tomlinson), who has lost just about everything but his sense of humor; an eccentric, kilt-clad dame (Margaret Rutherford), who is bent on establishing the earl as the rightful sovereign of Scotland; a National Coal Board man (Brian Oulton), who is assigned to commandeer the castle as a hostel...
...labor commissioner, to be Under Secretary of Labor. A veteran trade unionist (he still belongs to Local 42 of the Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers, A.F.L.), stocky, forceful Mashburn has been active in Los Angeles labor leadership, was brought into the state government in 1951 by Governor Earl Warren. Unlike his new boss, Labor Secretary-Designate Durkin, Mashburn is a Republican...
Married. Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, 29, rangy, redheaded heir to the eighth Duke of Buccleuch (pronounced "buck-cloo"), long regarded as the front runner for Princess Margaret's hand; and Jane Mc-Neill, 22, ash-blonde, China-schooled fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister practicing in Hong Kong. Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret traveled by special train from Sandringham to join the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and 1,600 other royal guests, socialites and privileged laborers and tenants of the Buccleuch estates (six ancestral homes...