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Indeed, says Stratford Herald Editor Harry Pigott-Smith, the voters had long known that Profumo was "a naughty boy," and would gladly have kept the ex-War Minister as their M.P. if only he had not lied about his affair with Christine Keeler to the House of Commons. Stratford's most serious criticism of the government was that it had launched an irritating political diversion in the Shakespeare industry's peak season. On the other hand, most voters were probably too busy changing dollars and Deutsche marks to change parties...
Married. John Alex McCone, 60, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; and Theiline McGee Pigott, 59, widow of Seattle Industrialist Paul Pigott and a friend of McCone's since college days at the University of California; both for the second time (McCone's wife died last year after 23 years of marriage); in Seattle...
Died. Sir Stephen J. Pigott, 75, U.S.-born British marine engineer and father-in-law of Senator Estes Kefauver, knighted in 1939 for his work in designing the engines that power the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth; at Closeburn Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland...
Afterward Mrs. J. E. Pigott, wife of a Tylertown merchant, helped the Secretary to dinner. On his paper plate she heaped fried chicken, chicken pie, potato salad, warm spice cake, two kinds of pie. "This is a great idea," he beamed...
Britain as a whole is probably prouder of the great Queen Mary and new Queen Elizabeth than of the peace of Munich. So their builders were also remembered on the King's honors list at the suggestion of the Prime Minister. A knighthood went to Stephen Joseph Pigott, managing director of the John Brown shipyards where they were built. The award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire went to George Patterson (Cunard-White Star's chief naval architect) and Donald M. Skiffington (John Brown yard director). Honest Tommy Rankin, foreman of the riveters...