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...Other credits: San Francisco Banker Derek Parmenter's retreat was done by Designer John Garden Campbell, and the glass-walled pavilion near Inverness, Calif., by Francis E. Leighton. Lily Saarinen's Cape Cod cabin is by Olav Hammarstrom, the Pound Ridge home of John Straus by Edward L. Barnes, and Burton Tremaine's house in Madison, Conn., was converted by Philip C. Johnson...
Born. To Princess Astrid, 30, comely daughter of Norway's King Olav V, and her commoner husband Johan Martin Ferner, 35, a prosperous Oslo clothier: their first child, a daughter; in Oslo...
Ogled Oligarch. Juliana's top-ranking guests were Queen Elizabeth, one of the world's richest women.* and the Shah of Iran, whose pretty young Empress Farah was the week's most ogled oligarch. The other reigning monarchs on hand: Norway's King Olav V, Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, and King Baudouin of the Belgians, who arrived a day late in order to spare Queen Fabiola, who is reportedly pregnant, the full rigors of a royal wingding...
...through 10°-below-zero cold by Astrid's sister, Princess Ragnhild (who had married a commoner in the same church seven years before), included uncommon cousins from three European kingdoms, among them a sympathetic Princess Margaret of Britain. Last came Astrid and her father, King Olav V, who had originally objected to his daughter's cup-winning yachtmate. After the ceremony, performed by a retired bishop in accordance with a church concession, Astrid was excluded from succession to the throne, lost the title "Her Royal Highness." Her new title: Princess Astrid, Fru Ferner...
...Bishop Pike, then dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tried the experiment during a Cape Cod vacation. He persuaded his summer congregation in Wellfleet, Mass, to build a church, designed by Finnish-born Olav Hammarstrom, which groups 350 people around an octagonal sanctuary, and no churchgoer is more than six rows from the altar rail. Last year Bishop Pike invited Architect Hammarstrom to the Pacific Coast to design a brother church, St. Anselm's in Lafayette, Calif., where some 450 parishioners assemble within the octagonal space, none more than seven rows from the altar...