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There are no more servants in Britain. Henceforth, servants are to be known as "houseworkers." The change was solemnized in London when Mrs. Clement Attlee (who for years was her own houseworker) formally opened the Mayfair headquarters of the National Institute of Houseworkers...
Born. To Charles John Robert Manners, tenth Duke of Rutland, 27, youngest of Britain's nonroyal dukes, and the Duchess of Rutland, 22, ex-Mayfair model, once known as "the girl with the perfect figure": their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: undecided. Weight...
...pacify insistent newsmen, they agreed to meet a few top correspondents at a small Mayfair cocktail party. The Duke, dressed in a mousy lounge suit and striped tie, babbled amiably about Britain's coal problem, the difficulties of Continental postwar life. The slim, charming Duchess looked closer to 35 than 50. She wore a handsome but unobtrusive red woolen suit with demure earrings and lapel brooch, made a point of chatting with each guest. Correspondents got the impression that the Windsors wanted a quiet and friendly press because the Duke was job-hunting and wanted no reminders...
...been planted in him. At the time, however, he all but forgot the experience. "The world of the flesh and the devil," he says, "took me back." In that world he prospered. He married a daughter of Lord Rennel of Rodd, fathered three sons. In London's Mayfair and on Manhattan's Park Avenue he established himself as a stylish portraitist. During World War II, Elwes served as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Hussars. Then last year, suddenly, blood clotted on his brain, paralyzing the right half of his face and body, including his painting hand...
...London gaunt, shy U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant never gave a party unless he had to. He lived in a quiet house in Mayfair and turned his magnificent Morgan-donated Prince's Gate mansion into a dormitory for girl clerks...