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...Idaho residency, Jeanne and the children of her eleven-year marriage, Heidi, 8, and Alfred Jr., 6, had taken some "out-of-season" skiing lessons and more than one pratfall. Snapped by a Chicago lensman as she headed back to her "home" in New York. Jeanne looked glum, kept mum. A little less reticent was one of her most dashing recent escorts, handsome Investment Scion Anthony Nutting, 36, separated from his wife (last June) and from his No. 2 spot in Britain's Foreign Office (last month) in protest against Anthony Eden's ill-starred Suez adventure. About...
...distributed "public-opinion" polls, Hunt's nonprofit-and tax-free-foundation promoted a far-right, McCarthyist line that saw "dangerously radical tendencies" in the Republican Party (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). As he folded all the projects, paid off employees and bought up outstanding contracts, publicity-shy Hunt kept mum as usual. But his programs were plainly victims of acute public indifference. Said one of his associates: "He just got tired of useless and lost causes...
...Mum on palace discords back home in The Netherlands (TIME, Oct. 29), Prince Bernhard, seeming to be enjoying every moment of his bachelor vacation away from Queen Juliana, concentrated on donning a life preserver at Jacksonville. Fla. An able airman and best-known jet pilot among Europe's royalty, Bernhard then flew off to the aircraft carrier Forrestal for an informal two-day fling with the U.S.'s Atlantic Fleet...
...Seed. In London, after arresting 15-year-old Frank Watt and a 17-year-old companion for robbing Watt's stepfather of $28 at knifepoint, police found an entry in Frank's diary: "Day off, go home and kill mum and dad, then take money...
Last week, while the Inquirer kept mum, the News front-paged an announcement that it was donating $500 to start a fund for the family of the murdered truck driver. In the same issue the News ran an interview with District Attorney Victor Blanc. The district attorney charged that the motive in Turner's murder "involves payroll padding and padding of overtime pay on the Inquirer." Added Blanc: "The loan shark was a side issue, but we will go through that also. I hope we will be able to make an arrest before too many days-an arrest...