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...political junket, with all those sweating newspapermen tailing him around, and Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart dropping over from the mainland to talk statecraft. It's even getting so that members of the local Scillonian Club are feeling nervous about calling him "Harold" anymore. Returning from a twelve-day honeymoon on Marco Island, off Florida's west coast, and Nassau, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, made a politic assessment of the stewardship of his bride, Barbara Cavanagh Wagner, in the kitchen cabinet. "The fish wasn't bad," said the mayor, "but the roast needed...
Married. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 55, New York City's third-term mayor; and Barbara Joan Cavanagh, 36, United Shoe Machinery Corp. heiress and longtime friend of the mayor's late wife Susan; he for the second time; by Francis Cardinal Spellman, in Manhattan. Following a ten-day honeymoon on Marco Island, Fla., the Wagners will live in a duplex suite at Manhattan's Hotel Carlyle while apartment hunting, relegating the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, to official use only, since they would have to move out when his term ends in December and, as Mrs. Wagner...
Though he resisted taking it, Moyers now seems to be enjoying his new job as much as the press enjoys him. "You never do the same thing twice," he says. "Every day's sunrise brings new problems." But the honeymoon is not likely to last indefinitely. The President and the press will eventually clash again, and Moyers may well find himself the man in the middle. Until that happens, the new secretary promises to be an ideal answer to the presidential press problem...
...only 13 months. Doris was, as he said, "extremely generous," and he went on to become corespondent in two society divorce suits and, in 1953, Husband No. 5 of Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton. Babs and Rubi flew aboard a chartered Super Constellation from Manhattan to Palm Beach to honeymoon in the 14-room villa of the Maharajah of Baroda. Alas, Rubi disappeared the next day, turned up some time later aboard a yacht in the Caribbean, where, he explained, he was looking for a "fabulous treasure." Regretfully, Babs gave him some in the form of an unofficial settlement reputed...
...ground, hundreds had seen the explosion and fire that shook the plane as it climbed off the runway. Rancher Deloss Wilder, who had put his newlywed daughter and son-in-law aboard for a Hawaiian honeymoon, watched the takeoff in horror. "Fire broke out," he said. "Things started falling off-the engine, the wing tip. The plane was still on fire when it disappeared through the pass. I thought it had gone down. It was a terrible thing. The wing just kept getting shorter." Miraculously, neither the engine nor the wing section struck anyone on the ground. The engine landed...