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...midst un-Monacan simplicity-in a ceremony attended only by relatives and very close friends at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, where her parents were wed 36 years ago. Meanwhile, NBC's early-rising Televendor Dave (Today) Garroway, 42, decided to end a long spell of grass widowerhood (he was divorced in 1946) with TV Production Coordinator Pamela Wilde, 28. Glowed Garroway: "Now I'll have someone to wake me at 4 a.m.!" In Washington onetime Price Administrator Paul A. Porter, 51, now a capital lawyer and being jettisoned by his wife (since 1930), confirmed rumors that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected and his heart enfeebled, Columbus lingered on until . . .he died from cardiac failure due to valvular disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Postmortems | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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