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...Senator, and, way back, a brother of St. Francis Xavier. More prosaically, his father was a salesman for International Shoe Co. "C.C." (for Cornelius Coffin) Williams was a gruff, aggressive man with a booming voice who was happiest, says Tennessee, "playing poker with men and drinking." His mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, was petite, vivacious, genteel and prim; she nourished rather illusory memories of a grand and gracious Southern past, of going to dances in Natchez and Vicksburg "on those big, beautiful plantations...
...Practically Died." C.C. was forever on the road with his shoe line, and Edwina Williams lived with her father, a patrician Episcopal preacher who restlessly changed parishes about every two years. Thomas Lanier Williams was born in 1911 in his grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Miss. He and his older sister Rose absorbed their mother's lofty sense of status as the daughter of a clergyman in Delta country. Tom loved to tag along after the Rev. Mr. Dakin on parish calls and listen to the conversations. "Tom always was a little pitcher with big ears...
...Married. Edwina Sandys, 22, daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relation Secretary Duncan Sandys and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill; and Piers Dixon, 31, son of Sir Pierson Dixon, British Ambassador to France and former U.N. delegate; both for the first time; in a diplomat-studded London ceremony missed by convalescent Sir Winston (who was visited by the newlyweds immediately after the reception...
Died. Countess Mountbatten of Burma (nee the Hon. Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley), 58, aristocratic English beauty who traded her famous gowns for nursing garb at the outbreak of World War II and has worked for the Red Cross ever since, as the last Vicereine of India won the affection of India's impatient nationalists; in her sleep; in Jesselton, North Borneo...
...right-wing types in England, he remains "the man who gave India away" under the direction of Attlee's Socialist government. To society, he and his Edwina are too flamboyant and pushy, e.g., they dress their male staff in the same navy blue uniforms as the Buckingham Palace staff...