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Married. Mildred ("Mimi") Clark, 20, Wellesley-educated daughter of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Clark; and Ensign Thomas Richard Gronlund, 23, Navy air cadet; in a formal wedding attended by 565 guests, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Associate Justice Hugo Black. General of the Army Omar Bradley; in Washington...
Voice of Firestone (Mon. 8:30 p.m., NBC). With Soprano Mimi Benzell...
...aristocratic young cavalry lieutenant of the French Fourth Hussars had decided to stage an ice carnival for his pert blonde mistress Mimi. When the Moselle froze solid one night in 1879, he had the snow-decked pines along the river bank festooned with gaily colored lanterns. Mimi made her entrance in a sled carved like a swan. At a signal, all lights except those from a bank of flaming punch bowls were doused, and fur-coated flunkies served up a feast of Parisian delicacies and champagne. To cap the party, a clump of snow-cleared pines was set ablaze...
Into the Rif. In a way, the queen of the ice carnival introduced Foucauld to his destiny. When the Fourth Hussars were ordered to North Africa, Charles sent Mimi on ahead, placing her on the passenger list as the "Vicomtesse de Foucauld." When the bona fide officers' wives arrived, their scandalized chirps quickly brought Charles a crisp ultimatum from his C.O., in effect: "Either Mimi goes, or you go." They both went...
...Africa and its people haunting him. The sight of the Moslems praying towards Mecca five times a day had given Foucauld, a freethinker from the age of 14 "a glimpse of something greater and truer than anything I had hitherto seen in the worldly world." He said goodbye to Mimi and rejoined his outfit, but after another tiff with his C.O., he quit the army for keeps. He turned to exploring. First mastering Hebrew, he posed as a rabbi in order to go into the Rif (the hill country of Morocco), something no more than half a dozen white...