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...manner in which women set their caps for a peer ("One day he'll come along, the duke I love," Nancy Mitford's sister Deborah, now Duchess of Devonshire, once prophetically crooned). Especially guilty, says Hall, are American women, who represent "the most substantial marital hazard." Says Statustician Hall: "They are just that much more unstable than, say, a clergyman's daughter. Some 43% of second and third marriages by English peers to American women have so far broken up. Let's face it, if a peer marries an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Divorce Is U | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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