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...went to Miss Hewitt's in Manhattan, 1'Academie Maxim's and the Sorbonne in Paris-and debuted at Newport in 1960. He went to the Royal Naval College, Oxford's Brasenose College, and was a Coldstream Guardsman. Now that, as they say in the set, is "the right sort," and everyone was delighted that pretty Durie Desloge, 22, will marry Briton Roderic lain Bullough, 28, in late May. The couple met in Bangkok last summer, and right now they are in Palm Beach visiting her mother, Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin, who hit the prints...
...Maxim Gorky Institute of Russian Language and Literature, long a center of Soviet influence in Romania, has been absorbed into the Department of Slavic Languages at Bucharest University...
Instinct for Power. Shannon, 36, is himself a first-generation American; his father, a carpenter, immigrated from Ireland in 1910, settling in Worcester, Mass. As Shannon sees it, the Irish developed a sophistication in politics through their long struggle against their British overlords. Their favorite maxim: "It is better to know the judge than to know the law." In the U.S., they built the political machines that would eventually govern many cities, and they instructed later immigrants in their intricacies. "For the Irish," writes Shannon, "politics was a functioning system of power and not an exercise in moral judgment...
...last to the Reformation. "Practice all the arts that ever coquette did, to please," writes the Earl of Chesterfield to his son Philip in 1752; "be alert and indefatigable in making every man admire, and every woman in love with you"-and the lines might serve as a maxim for all the ambitious nobles insinuating themselves to favor in the British court of George...
These days a small college has to grow in order to survive. Last week this maxim was illustrated at two Mid western campuses...