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...wife of a well-keeled competitor (Aristotle Onassis), prepared to sail under a new flag: the banner of Britain's hallowed House of Marlborough. After divorcing Onassis and taking custody of their two children last year, Tina was badly injured in a skiing accident at St. Moritz and convalesced in Oxfordshire, where she enjoyed the solicitous attentions of the Marquess of Blandford, 35, coltish, polo-playing heir to the 10th Duke of Marlborough and cousin to Sir Winston Churchill. Last week, claiming what apparently is an ex-husband's privilege in the Riviera set, Onassis leaked the news...
...Marienkirche. But the delegates decided that the immediate pleasure of electing Bishop Lilje might be offset by Communist reprisals during his six-year term. At the same time they rebuffed the Communists by refusing even a seat on the Evangelical Church's governing council to Bishop Moritz Mitzenheim of Thuringia, the nearest thing to a fellow traveler in E.K.D. 's top echelon...
Garbed like an Eskimo and puffing on a cigarette, the Duchess of Kent, 54, anxiously watched the British army ski championships at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Reason for her visible dismay was the performance of the team captain of the Royal Scots Greys-her son, the Duke of Kent, 25. The duke fell twice in the downhill, each time losing a ski, was disqualified in the slalom. Straight-faced the London Daily Telegraph: "The duke was none the worse for his experience...
Maybe Some Day. Weeks of confinement in his suburban Scarsdale, N.Y. home finally drove Winchell back to the duplex at Manhattan's St. Moritz Hotel that has long been his city hangout. But except for a few evenings at the theater, he has generally avoided the haunts where he once gathered his columnar tidbits...
...world's No. 1 bobsledder is a coal-and-ice dealer from Cortina, Italy. Eugenio Monti, 32, broke both legs in a skiing accident years ago; one cheek is deeply scarred from a splintering crash two years ago at St. Moritz, when his sled turned a double-somersault. "Brakes?" snorts Monti. "You should use them only to stop at the finish...