Word: viscounts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Michael Langhorne Astor, 52, son of the late second Viscount Astor, and former Conservative member of Parliament: Patricia Astor, 38, daughter of Sir Bede Clifford, onetime (1942-46) governor of Trinidad and Tobago; on uncontested charges of adultery; after six years of marriage, no children; in London...
Though he had once described India's economy as "the world's greatest example of functioning anarchy," he was welcomed as the biggest thing?in many respects?since Lord Irwin, later Viscount Halifax, who had traveled around the country as Viceroy 30 years earlier with an 8-ft. bed. "How tall are you?" Galbraith was asked soon after his ar rival. The reply: "I am the tallest man in the world...
...Died. Viscount Kemsley, 84, one of Britain's most powerful press lords until he sold most of his empire to Lord Thomson for $14 million in 1959; following an asthma attack; in Monte Carlo. Born James Gomer Berry, son of a Welsh town alderman, he and his brother William started their careers at the turn of the century with a sixpence monthly, Advertising World; with their profits they built a publishing empire that grew to 70-odd magazines and 31 newspapers, including London's Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times...
...Viscount Norwich, whose first essay into history was inspired by a holiday visit to Sicily six years ago, has retold the story of the Normans' little-remembered adventure there with infectious enthusiasm and commendable skill. It is difficult not to be swept up in the momentum of those violent times-and not to look forward impatiently to the next installment of the story, in which Norwich aims to tell how "the cultural genius that was Norman Sicily's chief legacy to the world bursts at last into the fullness of its flower...
...first Viscount Norwich (Alfred Duff Cooper) and Lady Diana Cooper...