Word: ex-ambassador
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Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid
...LIFE last week, William C. Bullitt, ex-ambassador to Russia and France, wrote a searing indictment of Roosevelt's Russian policy from 1941 on. It was a misguided policy, said Bullitt, of trying to handle Stalin by giving him all he asked, by repaying Stalin's arrogance and intransigence with friendliness and good will...
...Ex-Ambassador (to Brazil) William D. Pawley's five-year-old divorce from wife Annie (who was succeeded by wife Edna) was upheld by a Florida judge who dismissed Annie's suit for maintenance and delivered 1) a ringing tribute to Pawley as a valuable citizen, 2) a ringing rebuke to Annie for "relentlessly poisoning the minds of his superiors . . . with the purpose of ruining him." Buddy De Sylva, hit songwriter of the '20s (Good News, April Showers, Wishing) and producer (Panama Hat tie, Louisiana Purchase, DuBarry Was a Lady), persuaded a court to pare down...
While the Senate sputtered and raged, thin, harried George Allen, the ex-ambassador to Iran who took over the Voice after the silly broadcasts had been made, admitted the State Department's failure to monitor its own broadcasts. NBC, which conceded its own negligence, had already fired those responsible for the scripts. The whole graceless affair was a prime example of how Congress, in an election year, can hold itself at arm's length and punch its own nose. For Congress had 1) given the Voice so little money that it was unable to keep the frog...
Mining Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, ex-wife of ex-Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., left Manhattan for London, leaving behind some literary mementos: dinner-partner cards which she had written herself for a farewell party for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Her tribute to the duchess...