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...social rounds last week, Reporter Elsa Maxwell buttonholed 61-year-old Divorcé Adlai Stevenson, bluntly asked why he had never remarried. The U.N. Ambassador explained that it was because he could never understand women. "Must you understand a woman to marry her?" wondered Elsa. "Either that," confided Adlai, "or she must understand me. But do women ever understand...
Married. Sterling Hayden, 43, frog-voiced cinemadventurer (The Eternal Sea) and seafarer who, defying a court order, took his four children to Tahiti on his 98-ft. schooner (The Wanderer), got a suspended sentence on his return; and Catherine McConnell, 28, Manhattan socialite divorcée; he for the third time, she for the second; in Sausalito, Calif...
...John Reed, Otto Bauer, and is still tingling over the discoveries. Dotes on American history, but at times comes up with such historical whoppers as: "There was lack of law and order in America for 60 years following the Revolution." Enjoys painting, good conversation, the company of pretty women. Divorced his first wife in 1942 for childlessness and married pretty, 18-year-old Fatmawati, who bore him two boys, three girls. In 1954 he took to wife lissome, 32-year-old Divorcée Heriati, and Indonesian women who had adored Sukarno turned away in outrage. Though Mohammedans are permitted...
...strengthen the West Indian loyalty to the crown. The royal family undoubtedly hoped that the trip might have some of the same effect, so to speak, on Margaret; London society insists that she is still deeply in love with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, a war hero but a divorcé (TIME, July 20, 1953). If she decides to marry Townsend (which she will be eligible to do without the sovereign's permission after her 25th birthday in August), Margaret will have to give up her rights of succession and her $17,000 annual stipend...
Marc Champagnat, a stout and fastidious retired railroad worker, was the Dr. Johnson of the town of Angoulême A divorcé and a gourmet, Marc and his friends-the undertaker, the fishmonger, the mayor, the lawyer's clerk and the school principal-met so regularly in the tavern called Le Practic that their group became known as Champagnat's Club. Over peppery steak and cognac, Marc would talk endlessly of his philosophies, his past amours, his hobbies-fishing and cooking-and his adventures in the Cameroons. Even the Irish setter Vo-Vo learned to follow...