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...Married. Viscount Astor, 53, eldest son of Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor and onetime Member of Parliament; and Bronwen Pugh, 29, top fashion model and daughter of an English county judge; he for the third time, she for the first; in a London borough office...
...understanding of sea power-let alone naval strategy and tactics. He frayed the already frazzled nerves of his naval commander in chief, the vacillating Villeneuve, with whimsically changing orders. For two years his captains were reduced to an exasperating game of maritime hide-and-seek until Horatio Viscount Nelson, Vice Admiral of the White, hero of Copenhagen and the Nile, caught Villeneuve outside Cadiz and began the Battle of Trafalgar...
Cooking Up Words. Because she was a pacifist, Henrietta Szold herself at first could not get into British-mandated Palestine. She at last persuaded Viscount Samuel, the newly named High Commissioner, to use his influence. Once in, she stayed there most of her remaining 25 years, and proved herself an organization dynamo. In the years from 1922 through 1931, Hadassah's volunteer medical services spent more money ($445,000 to $655,000 a year) than the mandate government's Health Department. They opened scores of hospitals, clinics and mother-and-child welfare stations...
...chartered Viscount skidded to a stop on the sodden runway of Otis Air Force Base, and Lyndon Johnson stepped out, looking like a king-sized Martian in a ten-gallon hat. "I've come to see my leader," he announced. A waiting Air Force staff car whisked him to Hyannisport, 15 miles away. That night, while Caroline Kennedy's tiny grey kitten swatted night bugs on the front stoop, Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson held their first grand-strategy meeting since they parted company in Los Angeles, the victorious nominees on a strong and strange Democratic ticket...
Visiting China for the first time in 30 years, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein failed to recognize a bush-bearded chap whose portrait hung on the wall of a textile factory in Peking. Informed that it was a likeness of Karl Marx, Montgomery snapped: "He needs a haircut." Monty's general impression of China after five days: "There are great misconceptions in the Western world about the new China. I find the Chinese people to be happy and cheerful, whereas in the West it is considered that the Chinese people are very depressed and unhappy." Then he handed...