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Wilmot graduated from Oxford in 1661, travelled in Europe for a few years and was immediately received into the king's Court upon his return in 1664. By the following spring he had already begun to make an infamous name for himself: he kidnapped Elizabeth Mallet, an heiress whom he was courting. Charles II sent Rochester to the Tower for this, his earliest offense, although it took only three weeks to appease the king and set the prankster free until his trial came up. War broke out with the Dutch, Rochester volunteered, and soon released himself from further punishment...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: A Sort of Life | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...draft of a new abortion law. "She was impressed by me and the work I was doing. She then employed me and the romance started," explained Michael Wilson, 29. In fact, Wilson's performance as a butler and chauffeur so impressed Rachel Fitler, 77, that the Pennsylvania heiress and aunt of Happy Rockefeller has accepted her former employee's proposal of marriage. The Welsh coal miner's son denies any attachment to his fiancée's fortune, unofficially estimated at $2.5 million. "I must say it crossed my mind once in a while," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 4, 1974 | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...only Valerie Harper, over turning another bromide. If you are TV comedy's heiress apparent, you can go home again. Especially when home is three sets away from your own show. At 33, Mary's former confidante, the fat girl who grew too big for her bitches, now has her own show, Rhoda. It just may be the best thing to happen to Mon day night since pro football. On Rhoda's good evenings, she can produce more laughter than Edith Bunker put together. Even in the lady's off moments she is more credible than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhoda and Mary -Love and Laughs | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...Maire had budgeted for. Still "it is rare that a mother gets the pleasure of marrying her own son," said Baronne Alix de Rothschild last week as, in her capacity as mayor of the little Norman village of Reux, she prepared to wed her son David, 31, to Italian Heiress Olimpia Aldobrandini, 18. After the public town-hall ceremony and a religious service, the megamillion merger was to be toasted by the pick of tout Paris, many of them brought to the baronne's cháteau by special train. Solving such problems as whether to serve Pol Roger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 8, 1974 | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...constrained, frequently frustrating lives of politicians' wives were emphasized last week by Joan Kennedy's latest ordeal. As heiress to the pressures and drama of being wife to the Kennedy dynasty's surviving star, Joan has openly acknowledged her feelings of inadequacy. A friend explained: "She is just not tough enough." Joan's troubles climaxed when Teddy Jr. fell ill last fall with bone cancer. At one point, she collapsed under the strain, and Senator Edward Kennedy was left to cope. After an exhausting trip to the U.S.S.R. this spring with Ted, Joan on her doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 17, 1974 | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

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