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Born. To Ethel Barrymore Colt, 33, actress-singer daughter of great trouper Ethel Barrymore, and John R. Miglietta, fiftyish, American Republics Corp. executive: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: John Drew. Weight...
...opportunity to pounce on some venal vacationist, pounced on Lady Stanley for secretly spending hundreds of pounds beyond the legal limit. In London's Bow Street police court, Lady Stanley (who likes her friends to call her "Portia") pleaded guilty. Beside her, booked on the same charge, stood fiftyish Anton Bon, who likes his friends to call him "Major." Manager of London's swank Dorchester Hotel Ltd., he has made his establishment the Royal Family's favorite spot for social appearances. "Major" Bon also pleaded guilty. For Portia and her co-defendants British justice was unseasoned with...
...financial and economic dictator of Argentina," crowed Miguel Miranda to a friend last week. As Juan Perón's closest adviser and president of Argentina's newly nationalized Central Bank (TIME, April 8), the portly, fiftyish tin-can manufacturer was feeling his oats. A sweeping governmental decree had just handed him such economic power as few men had held outside Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy...
Juan Peron took satisfaction in dealing a swift kick to the men he once called "those 500 bums in the Stock Exchange." To run the new bank the Argentine strong man picked stout, fiftyish Miguel Miranda, who learned to take orders long ago as president of the government-controlled Industrial Bank. Out of their positions as head of the Stock Exchange and of the potent Industrial Union (equivalent to the National Association of Manufacturers) went Eustaquio Mendez Delfino and Luis Colombo, whose opposition to Peron's campaign-timed bonus and wage-rise decrees had not been forgiven. Into their...
Divorced. By Bernarr Adolphus ("Body Beautiful") Macfadden, 77, "physcultopathic" ex-publisher of Liberty, True Story, a raft of others, hardy perennial in the Garden of Love: Mary Williamson Macfadden, fiftyish, onetime British beauty contest winner; after 18 years of "perfect union," 15 of separation, days in court without number, seven children (he accused her of "humiliating" him by losing her figure) ; in Miami...