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...Alabama, even though the lawyers (who average $250 on an ordinary case) get most of the take. But some observers can see other advantages. After all, TV's John Daly got his divorce in Alabama, and so did Tina Onassis, Author Grace (Peyton Place) Metalious, and Lady Iris Mountbatten. It is quite conceivable that these stars would have never fallen into Alabama, even for 24 hours, if they had not needed a divorce...
Born. To David Michael Mountbatten, 42, third Marquess of Milford Haven, cousin of Britain's royal couple and best man at their wedding, and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, his second wife, a Bermuda socialite and sometime Manhattan mannequin: their first child, a son, who ensures continuation of the Mountbatten name (only other family male: British Defense Staff Chief Earl Mountbatten); in London...
Married. David Michael Mountbatten, 41, third Marquess of Milford Haven, cousin of England's royal couple and best man at their 1947 wedding, who once sold electric heaters to earn a living; and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, Bermuda socialite and ex-fashion model; he for the second time, she for the first; in a London Presbyterian church. Not present: Boyhood Chum Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, whose role as the head of the Church of England prevented her attendance at the wedding of a divorced person, but who will send a gift anyway...
...calm, postwar appraisal of Historian C.E. Lucas Phillips, the great raid remains a deed of glory-the achievement of an improbable military objective by an unbeatable combination of painstaking plans and inspired improvisation. Lucas Phillips reports it all, from the first casual conversations of Lord Louis Mountbatten with his staff to the final, hush-hush training exercise off the Scilly Isles, from the apparently aimless bombing raid on St. Nazaire to the escape attempts of captured British commandos...
Prince & Pugilist. Drawn by the deep, the elite free divers range from Lord Louis Mountbatten and his royal nephew Prince Philip to Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, from Russian Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo to Gary Cooper and U.S. Rocketeer Wernher von Braun...