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Married. Marie Spaak, 23, slim daughter of Belgium's rotund Premier Paul-Henri Spaak; and Arthur Palliser, 26, British Foreign Office Secretary; in Saint Gilles, Belgium...
...others. One of the largest crowds in racing history (an estimated 700,000 people*), saw My Love carry home the chocolate & chartreuse silks of the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of millions of Ismailite Moslems, ahead of the largest Derby field (32) in 86 years. Bubbled the fabulously rich, rotund Aga Khan, who had bought a half-interest in the horse only a few weeks ago: "I am delighted." Said one Frenchman, who came over for the race by boat and flew back after winning ?100: "In France I use a pin to pick winners. In England I pick French horses...
...Other One." M.P.s called Sidney "Nannie" because of his bushy goatee. "Small . . . rotund . . . tapering [off into] diminutive hands and feet," he was a cartoonist's joy. But to his adoring Beatrice, "the Other One" was her lord & master, her "little boy," and "man of destiny" rolled into one. Sidney was never ill, never daydreamed, never had a nightmare, never suffered from moral qualms or neurotic doubts. He could read and write sociological statistics day in & day out, and still have strength to work on numerous committees, coolly and tirelessly conducting "endless intrigues to persuade those in authority...
...whose hands the Met's production of Mozart's opera has become a perennial success. Thursday evening was no exception: the Opera House was packed to the ceiling and Pinza stole the show. Or rather, Pinza made the show. It was unfortunate that with the exception of the rotund buffoonbass Salvatore Baccaloni, who sang Leporello, the supporting cast did not quite click. Charles Kullman as Don Ottavio gave an adequate performance of some of the best music of the opera, but you couldn't always hear him. And Rose Bampton's Donna Anna, a difficult role to be sure...
...Rotund, easygoing Pappy Waldorf had one thing in his favor: the team was anxious to prove that it was not the players who were responsible for last year's disasters. Several players ran all summer to get their legs in shape; four of them, whose eyes were bad, got fitted with contact lenses. Last week California's Golden Bears scored their fifth straight victory of the season, over Washington State...