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...face is familiar, but . . . Italian Painter Pietro Annigoni, 56, wouldn't say who she was, though he did tell a wry tale about his portrait of the lady in London's Upper Grosvenor Gallery. "This woman came all the way from California to my studio in Florence," he chuckled. "She said: 'I have the most beautiful body in the world, and I wish you to paint me in the nude.' I had never had a proposition like that before. I thought it was a commission. As it turned out, it wasn't. All she wanted...
...novel now, though slowly. She walks well, except for a slight limp. So well, in fact, that Actress Patricia Neal, 40, recovering remarkably from three massive strokes during pregnancy last year, left her healthy seven-month-old baby at home in Buckingham and rode down to London's Grosvenor House to attend the British Film Academy's annual awards ceremony. Smiling as Actor James Mason ticked off some of the winners in the lesser categories, she suddenly heard him intone: "Best Foreign Actress . . . Patricia Neal"-for her role as Admiral John Wayne's girl friend...
Died. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 90, chairman since 1954 of the National Geographic Society and editor until then of its magazine, an ardent conservationist, traveler and journalist, who spiked the once stuffily academic Geographic with handsome color spreads and eyewitness reports, including the first conquest of Mount Everest, thereby hiking circulation from 900 to 2,000,000 (now 4,500,000) at his retirement; of a stroke; in Baddeck, Nova Scotia...
...London's Mayfair, office workers stumbled around in inky, icy blackness. At the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, diplomats read their documents by candlelight. Scotland Yard sped emergency flashlight details out to direct traffic at major intersections. Throughout great areas of southern England and the Midlands the blackout spread. Sections of Birmingham sputtered and went out, as did Maidenhead, downtown Derby and scores of other places...
Minutes later, Stevenson, accompanied by Mrs. Marietta Tree, an old friend and a fellow member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, stepped out of the embassy onto Grosvenor Square. Stevenson obligingly paused to pose for a photographer. Then he and Mrs. Tree strolled down the street. About 200 yards away, in front of the International Sportsmen's Club, Stevenson staggered slightly, grabbed his companion's arm, and said, "I feel faint." Then he collapsed. Mrs. Tree cried to the club's doorman: "Quick, come! Could you come at once and help?" She knelt over Stevenson...