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Divorced. By Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; Iris Paine Russell, 40, wealthy descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; on grounds of "incompatibility of character"; after 18 weeks of marriage (which took place last October, just 24 days after he was divorced by her second cousin, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill); in Juarez, Mexico...
...streamlined Olivetti's operations, cut losses, started making money again. Increasingly adaptable, Olivetti is negotiating construction of a calculator factory in Russia, plans new plants in Argentina, Brazil and Harrisburg...
...scored a triumphal 50,000-vote primary upset over the Democrats' machine-backed candidate, and badly shook both parties. While the Republicans tried feverishly to anticipate Shapp's strategy, Democratic bigwigs belatedly sought to win the parvenu's allegiance. At a banquet in Harrisburg, ex-Governor David Lawrence, longtime Democratic kingmaker, allowed: "Crow should have been the main dish. I must admit I am eating mine." Shapp thereupon served him another portion. After the dinner, he charged-with some reason-that Lawrence's organization had "stalled" Democratic progress, and demanded-unsuccessfully-that he be given control...
Divorced. By Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill Russell, 44, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and partner, with Chilean-born Art Dealer Guy Burgos, in Manhattan's Burgos Galleries: Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; on grounds of extreme cruelty, after 23 years of marriage, four children; in Reno...
...handled practically every job on the country's biggest road at one time or another, becoming a happy blend of operating and financial man, which let him maintain the Pennsy's unbroken record of dividend payments throughout the Depression while electrifying the line from New York to Harrisburg; of severe anemia; in Rosemont...