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Married. Margaret Atkinson Loughborough Biddle, 53, widow since 1961 of former U.S. Ambassador to Spain Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, and duchess of Philadelphia's Main Line; and Colonel Edwinston Robbins, 64, retired Air Force officer and longtime friend of the Biddle clan; in a civil ceremony performed in the Temple University chapel in Philadelphia...
...temperance evangelist's venture into group travel. An ex-printer named Thomas Cook, busy saving souls on the gin-washed shores of the British Industrial Revolution, chartered a train for 570 followers to attend a temperance convention. The group traveled in open tube cars from Leicester to Loughborough and back for one shilling per head. Soon Cook began organizing group trips for a profit, and his company, Thomas Cook, Excursionist Agent, was firmly launched during Queen Victoria's Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. To this pioneering world's fair, Cook's brought 165,000 visitors...
...from the belfry to the pothouse than to the church. But now, change ringing is having a revival, sparked by the interest of mathematicians and scientists.* Last week England was agitated by some big bell news: the attempt by eight veteran bell ringers in the Midlands factory town of Loughborough to set a modern change-ringing record...
...bells, to ringers, are always female) without interruption. Under these conditions, the best that, has been done so far is 21,600 changes (time: 12 hrs. 56 min.), rung in 1950 by a Cheshire team, and it was this mark that last week's octet at Loughborough set out to better. †More complicated arrangements have more romantic names, e.g., Grandsire Triples, London Surprise, Woodbine, Kent Treble Bob Major, Canterbury Pleasure...
...trail has been blazed from snails (Paris) to schnitzel (Vienna) to cheese (Gruyére). Health was pursued at the healing waters of Spa, Belgium, and Baden-Baden, Germany. Art was tracked from Amsterdam to Florence to Athens. A temperance tour arranged by young Thomas Cook (from Leicester to Loughborough) in 1841 was followed by many a wine-tasting round (the Loire and the Palatinate). But until recently, music was the main attraction only at such famed centers as Bayreuth and Salzburg. Today the music trail is one of the most popular in Europe. This summer well over 50 towns...