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...picture at right shows Charles Bateman, a physicist, in his New Kensington (Pa.) home last week. Another picture of him is on page 68, showing him six weeks ago buried under ice cubes. Bateman was then being "chilled" in preparation for a spectacular heart operation by Dr. Charles Bailey, TIME'S cover man this week. TIME'S color pictures follow that successful operation step by step into the patient's very heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story...
Died. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George ("Algie") Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, 82, onetime governor-general of South Africa (1923-30) and Canada (1940-46), last surviving brother of the late Queen Mary and great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II; in Kensington Palace, London. An erect, mustached ex-cavalryman (India, the Boer War, World War I) who looked and acted like the prototype of Britain's foxhunting, elephant-shooting old regimentals, the Earl of Athlone served as aide-de-camp to King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, officiated at countless...
...seven years his private secretary at Faber & Faber, Ltd., London publishing firm of which he is a director; he for the second time (his first wife, whom he married in 1915, died in 1947), she for the first; in an Anglican ceremony in London's St. Barnabas Church (Kensington) held at 6:15 a.m. to avoid Fleet Street newsbeagles. Obscurantist Eliot on the gulf between May and December in Lines for an Old Man (Collected Poems...
Resplendent in grey chiffon and diamonds, H.R.H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, a handsome woman at 50, posed in Kensington Palace for a birthday portrait by Britain's most chic photographer, willowy Cecil Beaton. For the occasion, she bedecked herself with a spectacular array of decorations, including the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order...
...government that "breaches of the peace are treated by the police as breaches of the peace and not simply as acts of high spirits because they happen to occur among the rich and influential." The question, though it named no names, brought a prompt and unprecedented reply from Kensington Palace. The Duke of Kent, said a palace statement, was indeed at the parties referred to but was "in no way involved" in their fruitier moments...