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Saintly Pompadour. Mary Lee sailed for Europe in 1855, an outwardly demure 17-year-old determined to make her mark and spread her Calvinist faith. When she snagged the elderly Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, she planned a honeymoon of New Testament grandeur. The couple retraced St. Paul's path to Damascus, camped out for a month in imitation of St. John the Baptist. But the prince collapsed and died before the honeymoon was over. Though his family accused Mary of murdering him by too many bedroom "fatigues," Mary inherited $4,000,000 in cash, several châteaux...
Miss Laurie, recently returned from her honeymoon in Morocco, will be accompanied by her husband, New York Herald-Tribune reporter Joe Morgenstern. She has promised Hasty Pudding that "only double pneumonia will keep me away this time...
...vitally important Agrarian Reform Institute. Fond of good eating, good tailoring and fancy cuff links, Rodríguez joined the Communist Party at Havana University in the 1930s. A Marxist theoretician, he served as a government minister without portfolio in 1942-43 during Dictator Batista's long honeymoon with the Reds. At the recent Punta del Este foreign ministers' conference, the Cuban voice was that of puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós. but the words were Rodríguez...
Cinemactress Piper Laurie has contracted pneumonia and will not be able to accept Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year award tomorrow. Miss Laurie, nominated Best Foreign Actress of the Year in Great Britain, recently returned from her honeymoon in Morocco...
...young doctor tries to use his better judgment, but one night . . . and one night leads to another. They go south on a honeymoon that imperceptibly enlarges through the '20s like a tapeworm steadily devouring the doctor's morale as a man. She demands incessant attention; he gives it-partly for medical reasons, partly from husbandly affection, partly because he is too weak to resist: he has always had "a fatal desire to please." He begins to neglect his work, live on her money, belabor the booze. The tabloids play him up as a "playboy psychiatrist." And strangely...