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...young to think of romance," said Cinemactress Peggy Ann Garner. At 15, she had reached woman's estate in Hollywood and was making a standard denial of standard gossip. She and wealthy, 18-year-old Viscount Furness,* said Peggy, were just good friends...
...Delhi's Palam Airport this week 25-pounders blasted out a 31-gun salute. Into the blazing heat stepped Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, cool and stiff in his starched, white Rear Admiral's uniform. The Rajputana Rifles band played God Save the King. Soon after, Mountbatten, his Lady and daughter Pamela reached the wide gate of the massive Viceroy's House. The Mountbattens entered a carriage drawn by plume-decked horses and, escorted by gold-turbaned, scarlet-coated guards, were driven the few hundred feet to the crimson-carpeted steps of the Durbar Hall...
...When Viscount Mountbatten, India's new Viceroy, skidded and bounced his car off the road near Basingstoke, Hampshire, the ex-Commandoman jumped out, stuck up his thumb, hitched to London in a passing bus, which got him there for a date with the Prime Minister...
Clement Attlee had another paper to read. There would be a new Viceroy in India for the 15-month period of Britain's withdrawal. Bluntly dismissed (but rewarded with an earldom) was taciturn Field Marshal Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, the one-eyed soldier who did not always see eye-to-eye with his Labor Government bosses in London, or with Indian leaders. In his place would be handsome, 46-year-old "Dickie" Mountbatten (Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma), second cousin of King George...
Married. The Hon. Felicity Anne. Wavell, 25, second daughter of Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, and Captain Peter Maitland Longmore, 25; in a lavish Lenten ceremony attended by eight maharajas, nine members of the Interim Government; on the day of the announcement of Viscount Wavell's replacement by Viscount Mountbatten (see FOREIGN NEWS); in New Delhi...