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...famous lovers, the seemingly (or unseemlily) inseparable couple made it legal in Montreal at a Unitarian ceremony attended only by eleven of their dearest employees. It was a hush-hush, rush-rush affair, for which they secretly flew up from Toronto-where Dick is doing Hamlet-in a chartered Viscount. By 2:20 that afternoon, here came the bride, all dressed in yellow chiffon, topped by a nuptial hairdo that featured a 34-in., hyacinth-entwined coil of hair. Then, slipping a circlet of diamonds on Liz's finger, he she wed. That night, said...
...most popular Tory leaders, elfin-faced, effervescent Viscount Hailsham, last week followed the example of former Lord Home, signed away his titles and became the Right Honorable Quintin Hogg. Leaving the "political ghetto" of the House of Lords, he will probably be elected to Commons from St. Marylebone, a solidly Tory, London constituency. "Lord Hail-sham," said he, "is dead. God bless Quintin Hogg...
Died. Charles Floyd, 41, former FAA radar operator, who on May 20, 1958, watched his screen in helpless horror at the Washington control center as an errant Maryland National Guard T-33 crashed into a Capital Airlines Viscount, killing eleven aboard the airliner, an accident for which he was not responsible, but which plagued his thoughts thereafter; by his own hand (barbiturates); in Herndon...
...soldiers never die, and Marlene Dietrich, 58, hardly fades at all. So when 5,000 veterans of Viscount Montgomery's El Alamein campaign got together in London for a reunion, who better to entertain the troops than the old desert queen herself? Flying in from rainswept Paris, Marlene left reporters gaping as she appeared in a fawn-hued raincoat, tall black boots with giant handbag to match-and a slouch-brimmed sou'wester. Having carried that off, she later headed for the show rehearsal in wrist-to-ankle blue jeans. But no need to fret, chaps. By show...
...line with the sleeker Riley and sporty MG, eventually reached a yearly capacity of 150,000. Finally, in 1952, Morris and rival Austin merged to form British Motors Corp., now the world's eighth largest auto company. Less than a year later, still peppery at 75, the Viscount Nuffield retired...