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Married. Constance Russell Winant 53, wealthy widow of John G. Winant onetime ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and breeder of blue-blooded show terriers; and retired Navy Captain Marion Eppley, 69, wartime staff officer with Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and president of the Eppley Laboratory (precision measuring instruments) in Newport, R.I.; both for the second time (his first: the late Ethelberta Russell Eppley, sister of the bride); in Manhattan...
...last detail: a handsome, 3-in. drummer in Louis XIV's army is done up in the flaming red, orange and white uniform of the period, with every button, every bit of lace exactly in place. France's handful of craftsmen (among them: an old widow, an ex-jockey, a chef) will spend an entire week fashioning the body for such a figure, then modeling the uniform out of tin leaf. It takes 40 delicate soldering operations to make King Louis' drummer fit to pass muster and about $30 hard cash to put him in a collector...
...Gift of the week: $3,950,000 left to educational, cultural and civic organizations by Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, widow of the late J. P. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lament, longtime board chairman of Morgan's banking house. Largest slice of the bequest ($2,950,000) went to women's colleges because "women's education is just as important for our country as men's education." Items: to Smith College, $1,200,000 as a "token of my special indebtedness for four happy and stimulating years there"; to Barnard College, $500,000 for being...
...Cousin Rachel (20th Century-Fox) is a 19th century whodunit that poses a perplexing riddle: Is the fetching, half-English, half-Italian widow Rachel (Olivia de Havilland) a murderess who killed her former husband? And is she now slowly doing away with her lover (Richard Burton) by slipping laburnum seeds into his tea? Or is Rachel only misunderstood-a gracious, generous "woman of impulse ... of strong feeling" whose husband died of a hereditary brain tumor? This mystery is slickly served up with all the full flavorings of romance, tragedy, revenge, intrigue and suspense. Bells clang in the distance, the surf...
...first calls went to a loyal McPherson alumna, Rozella Switzer, the town's Democratic postmistress. Rozella, a widow in her 40's, runs an efficient post office, smokes Pall Malls, drinks an occasional bourbon & coke, likes politics and people. She was curious about the African students and invited them over. Two nights later they sat comfortably around her living room, sipping coffee, browsing through her books, listening to her records-and talking...