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...chief correspondence investigator, the Hoover group wisely chose tall and talented Mona Sheppard, who has been trying for years to simplify and improve the style of Government letters, and to reduce the almost endless files (24 million cu. ft. of them in 2,000,000 file cabinets -enough to stretch in a single drawer from the Pentagon to the Kremlin). Among the task-force recommendations is a new correspondence style board with authority over letter-perfection in every nook and cranny of the Government. Likeliest candidate for chairman: Mona Sheppard...
Married. Mrs. Mona Harrison Williams, 57, perennially "best dressed" widow of Public Utilitycoon Harrison Williams, who left her the bulk of his estimated $12 million fortune when he died 14 months ago, aged 80; and Count Albert Edward Bismarck, 51, interior decorator and grandson of Prince Otto von Bismarck, first chancellor of the German Empire; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Edgewater...
Last July, for the observance of the third anniversary of El Solh's murder, another Ibn Saud heir, brawny, globetrotting Talal, son No. 18, journeyed to Lebanon to pay his respects to the bereaved. His piercing eye soon singled out Mona, the dead Premier's sparkling 18-year-old third daughter. After one quick glimpse. Talal invited himself to dinner on the following day. A day later, he proposed marriage. Mme. El Solh said it was up to Mona, and Mona cast down her eyes and murmured yes. Last week, after agreeing to pay a modest dowry...
...diamond approximately an inch long, half an inch wide; a gold mesh bracelet, a diamond-studded necklace, and a hunting-case wristwatch adorned with seven large diamonds and several smaller ones. More important, Talal bought himself a 20-room mansion on the mountain road to Damascus, which suggested that Mona would not be cooped up all year round in a Saudi Arabian harem...
...there was one other matter. "I don't like to make conditions, and I made none. But I'm sure he won't marry any other girls," Mona said confidently...