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...from his Soho past gleefully designed him a coat of arms showing a camera over a unicorn, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, unabashedly unpacked the tools of his old trade to take the first pictures of Princess Margaret with their 2½-week-old son, David Albert Charles, Viscount Linley.*The results were acclaimed as "superb" by fastidious Royal Photographer Cecil Beaton and must have been equally gratifying to Retired Photographer Armstrong-Jones, who, peddling his shots at up to $9 a print, was taking home his first earnings in 18 months of royal matrimony...
...journalist, who took the pictures on the following pages. Gigon and other foreign visitors tell a story that supports the refugees' version of Red Chinese reality, sharply contradicts Peking's propaganda as well as the enthusiastic tales of such impressionable visitors as Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. In fact, even Red China's normally boastful leaders guardedly admit serious trouble. In his comfortable villa at Hangchow, Chairman Mao Tse-tung told France's ex-Cabinet Minister François Mitterand that he knew "Western newspapers have printed large headlines on what they call...
...Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 31, and Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, 31, elegant ex-commoner and onetime court photographer: their first child, a son; in Clarence House, Queen Mother Elizabeth's London residence. The 6-lb. 4-oz. child automatically received his father's secondary title, Viscount Linley, but while the Royal Family searched for proper Christian names, delighted London newspapers referred to him simply as "the Jones boy.'' He is fifth in line for the British throne, after Queen Elizabeth's three children and his mother-exactly the same position occupied by Princess...
Some of the worst nonsense ever spoken about Red China is being spread by a man who commands an audience because of his title and past record: Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 73. On British TV and in the press last week, Monty was bubbling with excitement "about his September tour of Red China. In the Sunday Times, he reported that he could find "no evidence'' that the Chinese people were becoming tired or disillusioned. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Monty reported: "Talk of large-scale famine, of grim want, of apathy...
Died. Harry Frederick Comfort Crook-shank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, 68. rapier-tongued parliamentary leader of Britain's Conservative Party from 1951 till his elevation to the House of Lords in 1955 a 32-year House of Commons veteran whose sardonic debating style elicited from Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell the tribute: "I never knew a man who could say such outrageous things with such charm"; of cancer; in London...