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Shopman Douglas, 20, pretty blonde daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was keeping company in London with one of the realm's most eligible nobles: the Marquess of Blandford, 22. They were seen together at dinner, at dancing, and over afternoon milkshakes at the embassy canteen. They were seen together at the movies (where a photographer snapped them seated next to Clement Attlee's son Martin-see cut). What excited the gossips was the hint of a triangle: the tall young Guardsman was supposed to have another girl-Princess Margaret...
...young lordlings who take her dancing are enthusiastic about her. One appraisal: "She's a hell of a girl-real zing!" Speculation on her possible marriage is widespread in Britain. Current favorite: the Marquess of Blandford ("Sonny"), eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough; Sonny wears a tophat with as much éclat as his father brings to catching raspberries in his mouth (TIME...
...noon. In the twilight of this empire, the family name had been kept bright by a commoner named Winston Churchill. Last week, however, the Marl-boroughs were once again in the forefront of the news. In London, gossips linked the names of Princess Margaret and the 22-year-old Marquess of Blandford, heir of the tenth Duke. At Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, the tenth Duke of Maryborough, astonished dinner guests by twice pitching a raspberry high up to the great vaulted ceiling and catching it in his mouth as it fell...
Died. Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington, 28, bright-eyed second daughter (of nine children) of Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime, (1937-41) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; in a plane crash; near Privas, France. The Marquess, a captain in the Coldstream Guards, was killed in action 18 weeks after their marriage in 1944, four weeks after her brother, U.S. Navy Lieut. Joseph P. Jr., was killed on an operational flight...
...Britons, G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine, climbed up to 27,000 ft. and pitched camp. There they left their three porters and pushed upward into the mists. Whether they reached the top will probably never be known; they were never seen again. In 1933, the Marquess of Clydesdale (now the Duke of Hamilton) made the first flight over the mountain...