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...London, Enid Margaret Cripps, 32, youngest daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps, austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer, joined a slight, spectacled law student for an announcement to the press: they were going to be married in July. He was Joseph Manuel Appiah, thirtyish, son of an African tribal leader and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. They had met at a party in London two years ago. As for the problems of an interracial marriage, they had the approval of both families and expected no social difficulties on the Gold Coast, where they will...
Charming Rotter. In a sleazy London bar, Kate Farrant, thirtyish and handsome, waits for her twin brother Anthony, a globe-trotting ne'er-do-well. When he bounces in with "the shallow cheer of an advertisement," she guesses he has lost his job again. To Kate, her charming rotter of a brother is a frightening vision of the failure she might have been, yet she loves him helplessly, as if he were more than a brother. To salvage him, she takes Anthony back with her to Sweden, where she is ensconced as mistress to Erik Krogh, Europe...
This year the plot has turned less subtle. Since January the Soviets have: 1) reopened the Russian Palestine Society under the direction of agents from Moscow, 2) replaced Archimandrite Vladimir with English-speaking Ignaty Polikarp, thirtyish, handsome and Communist trained, and 3) won over many Communist-voting Christian Arabs to the Russian church...
Divorced. The Rev. William H. Alexander, 37, strapping, red-haired chaplain of the Republican National Committee (the first to hold the office), who is on leave of absence from Oklahoma City's oil-rich First Christian Church; by Mrs. Charlsie Alexander, thirtyish, who charged that he treated her more like "a servant than a wife and companion"; after 17 years of marriage, three children. Big (6 ft. 2 in.), handsome, a born showman (he was once a nightclub M.C.) and a spellbinding speaker who makes from five to eight lecture jaunts a week in his own plane, earned...
Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville, 57, who has not yet arranged a divorce settlement with wife No. 8, was planning marriage No. 9 to brunette Nightclub Singer Ruth Webb, thirtyish. Said Tommy: "I don't know her very well, I've only had lunch with her once or twice, [but] this time I am quietly and calmly in love with a woman mature both in mind and body. I think this could be one of the richest experiences of my life...