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...York two years later, the ex-Mrs. Kaufmann married Lewis S. Rosenstiel, aging, multimillionaire boss of Schenley Industries. Later, the marriage soured. With a huge fortune at stake, the Rosenstiels began fighting in court over his contention that her Mexican divorce was invalid, thus annulling their marriage and with it her claims to his money. In 1964, his lawyer (Roy Cohn) finally beat her lawyer (Louis Nizer) with a trial court decision holding that Mexico lacked jurisdiction over Mrs. Rosenstiel because she was in fact a New York resident when the divorce was granted. As a result, she was still...
...elections. Faye Levine tried to become the first girl class marshal of a Harvard graduating class. The 329 years of ivied traditions trembled, but they did not fall. The HCUA, in its own death throes, rushed to preserve Propriety. Amidst a pleasant furor, Miss Levine's candidacy was ruled invalid. But the candidate on the basis of some little-publicized election rules further sullied the election. The proceedings amply reflected the disdain, in which most of the class held the proceedings...
Married. Paul-Henri Spaak, 66, Belgium's outspoken Socialist Foreign Minister and former NATO Secretary-General; and Simonne Rikkers Hottlet Dear, 56, an Antwerp-born divorcee and longtime friend; he for the second time (his first wife, an invalid for many years, died last August), she for the third; at Eze, on the French Riviera...
...helped overthrow him, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was almost unanimously re-elected President of Egypt, obtaining an incredible 99.999% of the 6,950,000 votes cast. If the results were to be believed, only 65 hardy souls voted against Nasser, while 489 ballots were defaced and therefore held invalid...
...every step of a slut's progress from a bawdyhouse to a legal bed. At 17, driven by wartime necessity, Filomena meets Domenico on the job. In her 20s, he sets her up in a little flat. In her 30s, he takes her home to care for his invalid mother. In her 40s, Filomena is running his business and his house, and Domenico at 50 is still running around...