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...Romance. Sadly for lovers of fairy tales, it turns out that the two men were not really competing for the spirited princess's hand. London gossip has it that Meade was never a suitor but acted as a cover for Phillips. Anne, who inherits her father's fondness for playing games with the press, contributed to the confusion. As recently as March, Anne royally fibbed that there was no romance between her and the strapping soldier. In fact, they actually became engaged in mid-April; the official announcement was delayed until, according to protocol, Commonwealth leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Princess and the Dragoon | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, there was Liza's previous engagement to Desi Arnaz Jr., 21, to dispose of. According to Liza, it just melted. Actress Britt Ekland, the second of Sellers' three wives, was not impressed. "He must have used one of his disguises on her," she told a London gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 4, 1973 | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...Yale freshman, sprang full-blown upon the pages of the New York Times Magazine with a treatise on growing "old" in the 1960s. Since then, she has become the enfant visible of the magazine world, writing features about everything from proms to prodigies and becoming a gossip-column celebrity in her own right by tying up with the hero of another generation, J.D. Salinger (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...rather embittered and sentimental atavist there is passion in his every word. A bundle of fresh caricatures, Smitty can sound like a disgruntled Confederate general, or like William Loeb, the publisher of the Manchester Union Leader who expresses his most exquisite right-wing rage in capital letters. A gossip columnist, a backroom politician, a muckraking Galahad of journalism -- he conjures up images of a fierce American brashness that are endearing and real. Also, and less successfully, he is an echo of a literary past, a Hemingway, a Hawthorne, a Melville, a Twain. This whole side of the book, from...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: The Whiteness of the Ball | 5/18/1973 | See Source »

...John Lofton, editor of the Republican National Committee's publication, Monday, told FBI agents that he visited Magruder's office at the Nixon committee shortly before the June 17 arrests. He noticed a file on Magruder's desk labeled "Gemstone I." Without mentioning any spying activities, Magruder cited some gossip about National Democratic Chairman Larry O'Brien. Lofton asked if he could use it in Monday. "Absolutely not," Magruder cautioned. After he read about Watergate, Lofton phoned Magruder and joked innocently: "Well, there goes Gemstone I." There was dead silence from Magruder, then the cold warning: "Don't ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Nixon's Nightmare: Fighting to Be Believed | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

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