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Down the steps of St. Vincent's Church in Lisbon walked faded, sixtyish Elena (Magda) Lupescu, longtime mistress and later wife of Rumania's late ex-King Carol, who lies buried in the church's pantheon. A widow since 1953, blonde, green-eyed Magda was Carol's faithful companion in palace and in exile for more than 30 years, now lives quietly at the villa they once shared in nearby Estoril, avidly plays canasta with a small circle of friends...
Though she has an ancient Tuscan name, spry, sixtyish Mary Ramacciotti was born and bred in Baltimore. She joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Baltimore while still in her teens, stayed on to teach. Romance languages, eventually became dean of Notre Dame of Maryland college. Her present project began in 1955, when she met a bouncy, bustling Irish priest named Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, a man with a well-known mission-"Boys' Towns" for Italy. During fund-raising drives for his boys, one question bothered him: What about the girls? When he met Mother Mary...
Died. Jack Buchanan, sixtyish, versatile British song-and-danceman, TV performer and London theater owner; of spinal arthritis; in London. Scottish-born Buchanan once taught Laurence Olivier how to twirl a cane and twinkle his feet, was a leading comic at 19, made his first of many Broadway appearances in Andre Chariot's Revue of 1924 (with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence...
Married. Joseph Nye Welch, 66, Boston lawyer, chief Army counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings (April-June 1954); and Agnes Rogers Brown, sixtyish, widow of Charles W. Brown Jr., one of Welch's closest friends; both for the second time; in Brookline, Mass...
Grey-haired, sixtyish Anne Wheaton can be expected to do a good job in the White House press office. Beyond that, her appointment proves to a lot of women that the White House never underestimates the power of women...