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...opera takes place in a small Austrian village in the middle of the eighteenth century. Hanswurst, a chimney-sweep, is madly in love with Columbina, whose father is Odario, the town money-grubber. Odario tries to wed his daughter to the richest man he can find, and he picks priggish Fleandar, a wig-curler in the guise of a nobleman. From there on, the plot takes every traditional turn imaginable, with ghosts peering from balconies and men dressed as women. By the end, of course, the good Hanswurst gains the hand of the sweet Columbina, Odario wins the coveted Stone...
...spanking 1688 condition. Last week, for the first time since reopening, its state rooms resounded with the tinkling glasses and lively laughter of a private party. More than 400 guests attended a reception given by Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home for his soon-to-be-wed daughter, Meriel...
...also an extremely agile, able young man. Concedes a Democratic Senator who is not listed among Baker's foremost admirers: "Bobby always knew more about what was going on around here than most anybody else." But life was not all work for Bobby: in 1950 he wooed and wed Dorothy Comstock, a slender blonde from Springfield, III., who worked then and now on the Hill as a clerk of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Their wedding reception, to Baker's everlasting gratification, was held in one of the old Senate Office Building's ornate committee rooms...
...seeped word that the Sacred Rota of the Vatican had given to Princess Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's younger sister, an annulment of her first marriage to transatlantic Socialite Michael Canfield. The ruling, which was quietly handed down in November 1962, left Lee free to celebrate a church wedding last July with her thrice-wed second husband of nearly five years...
Technical Sin. Lee's troubles began back in 1958, when she obtained a civil divorce from Canfield. In March 1959, she wed Stanislas ("Stas") Radziwill* before a Virginia county clerk. But the church does not recognize the validity of civil marriages by Catholics; nor, since Lee had wed Canfield before a priest, could it accept her divorce...