Word: marquess
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...dramatist, lived here." On hand were Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland (who recently described his inherited stigma in Son of Oscar Wilde-TIME, Sept. 27), Actor Michael Redgrave, Poets T. S. Eliot and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Lord Cecil Douglas, grandson of the unforgiving ninth Marquess of Queensberry, whose grim insistence that Wilde go behind bars was the prime force that landed him, convicted of sodomy, in Reading Gaol...
Behind Whitehall's traditional façcade of Cabinet unity, there were hints of tumult and clash. Sometimes it was handsome Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden (b. 1897; educ. Eton and Oxford) versus the tough-minded Marquess of Salisbury, Lord President of the Council (b. 1893; educ. Eton and Oxford); sometimes it was Eden versus Churchill, who was a Cabinet minister before Eden was twelve...
...Truths. Fortunately, within the Tory Party itself there are some who have become increasingly uneasy over the waituntil-after-Geneva policy, and acutely worried over the possibility of a permanent Anglo-American breach. Their spokesman is the Marquess of Salisbury, Lord President of the Council and one of Churchill's closest advisers on foreign policy. Salisbury was the only Tory to publicly dissociate himself from Britain's recognition of Red China. At last summer's Washington conference, where he deputized for the ailing Eden, he was the only Western minister to declare that the Berlin conference (which...
...Milford Haven, stalked grimly out to a plane at New York's International Airport for a "mystery flight" to Mexico. Both the mystery and Romaine's marriage were soon unraveled. Two days later she was back home with a jigtime Juárez divorce from the blueblooded marquess, David Michael Mountbatten, 35, who is closely related to both Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. It was not, however, the marquess' royal family ties which troubled Romaine; she had charged earlier that he was even more closely related (through connecting hotel suites) to eye-filling Hungarian...
Katherine, Marchioness of Diss, once Katie O'Higgins of Washington, D.C., is planning a dinner at her palatial London home. Her list of guests does not include her estranged husband-a dry-as-dust marquess whom she married chiefly for his title. Nor does it include the only man she really loves-her son, the Earl of Hazelhurst, who despises his father, oedipuses his mother, and spends most of his life staying drunk. But Katie's list does include...