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...Winston Churchills, dressed strictly for comfort, encountered photographers on the Hendaye beach, where they were vacationing between the British political campaign and the Potsdam Conference, together made a picture that looked startlingly like an old George Belcher cartoon out for a walk with one of the Elgin Marbles...
Married. Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, convivial ex-U.S. Army major and multi-uxorious automobile heir whose previous tries at matrimony have cost him a reputed $3,000,000 in settlements; and Lieut. Clara Tinsley, 27, U.S. Army nurse from Louis ville, Ky. ; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Windsor, England...
...parting thought for Joe Neil, Elgin skyscraper, who spent a pleasurable Sunday in the company of a Metro ballet star. Well, kiddies, meet you at midterms...
Major Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, thrice-married motorcar heir, was busy last week with a full program of marital madcapping. After days of long-distance objections (Stamford, Conn, to Denver) to the proposed marriage of his son, Corporal H. E. Dodge III to Margery Gehman, redheaded daughter of a University of Buffalo professor, he announced that he would attend as best man, arrived in Denver 48 hours late, having missed plane connections. Sitting on her lap, he gave his blessing to his new daughter-in-law, told reporters he was in love with 2nd Lieut. Cara Tinsley, an Army...
...That is, by World War II. In 480 B.C. the Persians partially destroyed the Acropolis; in 86 B.C. Romans under Sulla plundered it; in the 17th Century, Acropolis temples were damaged by both Turks and Venetians. In 1801-1816, Lord Elgin carted off a large part of the Parthenon's remaining sculptures, sold them to the British Government for London's British Museum...