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Like Harold Macmillan, Grimond is a Scot who attended Eton and won a scholarship to Oxford's austere Balliol College -and, like the Prime Minister, he is wedded to his work. Grimond's wife Laura is the daughter of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, perennial high priestess of the Liberal Party, and herself the daughter of Lord Asquith, who in 1908 became Prime Minister in the party's last elected government. (Winston Churchill was his famed First Lord of the Admiralty...
...months later, Durie married Thomas H. Shevlin, son of a famed Yale football end (1902-05) and wealthy Minneapolis lumberman, Thomas Leonard Shevlin. The marriage, at Fort Lee, N.J., on July n, 1947, was Shevlin's second. His first wife, Lorraine, was the daughter of Pasadena Socialite Princess Laura Orsini; she had first been married to Robert McAdoo, son of President Wilson's Treasury Secretary. She is now married to Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, and is a good friend of President and Mrs. Kennedy's. In divorcing Shevlin, Lorraine was ultimately granted...
...faked a research photograph in his fellowship thesis, and a court of dons deprives him of his fellowship. Since Howard is a boor whose better-Red-than-well-bred political stance and personality irked most of his colleagues, his departure is viewed as good riddance. But his spitfiery wife Laura (Brenda Vaccaro) is certain of his innocence, certain that he has been victimized for his fellow-traveling ideology. She pleads with Sir Lewis Eliot (Brewster Mason), a renowned lawyer and former university fellow, to reopen Howard's case and fight for his reinstatement...
...human such motives can be is suggested with delightfully doddering comic precision by Edward Atienza as an ancient Senior Fellow who believes that he is being bypassed on suspicion of senility. The retrial exonerates Howard, but the terms of reinstatement outrage the implacably" anti-Establishmentarian Laura (Howard rather implausibly leaves his wife at this point), and the fact of reinstatement disgusts the right-wing bursar, who abominates "such men." To C.P. Snow, both characters symbolize the extremists of the world who keep the men of good will from achieving global harmony...
Just which marriage they wanted to have annulled* was at first not quite clear, since "Stash" Radziwill. 48, was once married to Shipping Heiress Grace Kolin. who last year married the Earl of Dudley, who was formerly married to Laura Charteris, who is now married to U.S. Socialite Michael Canfield, who was the first husband of Lee Bouvier. who since March 19, 1959, has been married to Prince Stanislas Radziwill...