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Died. The Hon. Sir David Bowes-Lyon, 59, look-alike younger brother of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, a Scottish-descended* investment banker who ran Britain's World War II Political Warfare Mission to the U.S.; of a heart attack; at Birkhall, Scotland...
With the third edition of London's Sunday Telegraph safely tucked into bed, its bone-weary parent and editor in chief climbed into his secondhand Morris station wagon at 1 a.m. and headed for his Buckinghamshire country estate. Behind the Hon. William Michael Berry, 50, second son of the first Viscount Camrose, stretched 20 weeks of late Saturday nights -and the special satisfaction of having succeeded when his competitors were smugly certain that he would fail. In less than five months, the Sunday Telegraph, London's first new Sunday paper in 42 years,* has clearly established its capacity...
...past decade. Meantime, U.S. owners have registered 454 ships in foreign countries, including 259 in tax-free Panama, Liberia and Honduras. Not only can these "flag of convenience" ships be operated at half the cost of a U.S.-flag ship, but the 259 "Pan-Lib-Hon" vessels are under U.S. "effective control," i.e., Washington can order them into the U.S. merchant fleet in time...
...began in the 1930s, when Father Joe Kennedy was Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Son John F., then a student at Harvard, was often in residence at the embassy during vacations, and naturally enough, fell in with the Rt. Hon. David Ormsby-Gore. Young Ormsby-Gore was not only heir to the title of his father. Lord Harlech, a Shropshire landowner and onetime chairman of the Mid land Bank, but also nephew of Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury. "We were just young people going around together." says Ormsby-Gore. Then Jack Kennedy's kid sister Kathleen...
Died. The Duchess of Marlborough (née the Hon. Mary Cadogan), 61, daughter of an ancient Welsh house, wife of the tenth Duke of Marlborough, frequent hostess to Britain's royal family as mistress of stately Blenheim Palace, birthplace of her cousin by marriage, Sir Winston Churchill; after a long illness of an undisclosed nature; in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England...