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...bargain prices. But: no tankers to deliver the goods. Shipowners were chary of the stern British threat to sue any owner who loaded Iranian oil. Sedika moved on to Rome, set up two corporations, and started looking for men with tankers. At Rome's swank Excelsior Hotel, Mme. Garagozlou explained: "I am the-how do you call it-front man. I make the contacts...
Among the ailing and convalescing: Madame Chiang Kai-shek flew from her temporary home in Formosa to Honolulu for treatment of neurodermatitis, a nervous condition which causes severe itching. "Very tired and weak," she retired to the home of her sister Mme. H. H. Kung until hospital accommodations could be arranged. The Duke of Windsor was recovering in Montecatini, Italy, from a "slight attack of indigestion" diagnosed by his doctor as the result of "too many invitations in this heat." He was ordered to limit his drinking to milk (with occasional mineral-water chasers) and his eating to meats...
...Seated: Mme. Binay Ranjan Sen, wife of the Indian Ambassador, touching her palms in a respectful Hindu greeting (the pronam...
Married. Marc Chagall, 63, Russian-born expressionist painter, and Mme. Valentine Brodski, fortyish, who looks (said Chagall's daughter) as though "she stepped out of one of father's paintings"; both for the second time; in Clairefontaine, France...
...acting secretary general of France's Communist Party, the second largest in Western Europe. Jacques Duclos, who had been in the pokey for nearly five weeks on a conspiracy charge, listened happily to the cheers of some 50 friends, admirers and fellow troublemakers gathered outside. The car stopped; Mme. Duclos rushed up, bussed her husband soundly on both cheeks, handed him a bunch of red gladiolas and got in beside him. Then the grey limousine drove away...