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Next morning more than 50 male and female reporters trooped into the austere British Embassy, so many that the Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald Lindsay had to meet them in the spacious entrance hall. Standing on the staircase obviously frightened, His Excellency was made no more comfortable by the activities of extremely irreverent photographers...
...17th Century came a dusky Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs by France's great Nicolas Poussin. How nude painting became stage prettiness and erotic folderol in 18th-and early 19th-Century France was almost too amply demonstrated in pictures by Watteau, Boucher, Baudouin, Girodet and Prud'hon...
Romilly, Winston Churchill's 18-year-old nephew, scandalized his Tory family by packing off to Spain to fight for the Loyalists. The Hon. Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford, 19, second-youngest of the six beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond. Fuming, Baron Redesdale made Decca a ward in chancery, thus making it illegal for any Englishman to marry her without the High Court's consent. Decca and Esmond cocked a long-distance snook, cried: "We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience. . . ." (Few months later they compromised with convention...
...London last month, Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman went into court to claim a legacy of ?500 left to the Oxford Group, of which he is founder (TIME, March 6). Last week the Hon. Mr. justice Sir Charles Alan Bennett ruled the legacy invalid. Grounds: lack of proof that the Group existed. Dr. Buchman's counsel, asked by the justice whether anything happened when one joined the Group, had replied: "No, I think it is as invisible as joining the Church of England...
Both the pictures and the Independents, sponsors of the meeting, were heartily endorsed by the Hon. Irwin Laughlin, former United States Ambassador to Spain, who called the movies "the best statement of fact that has come from that area...