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LONG before Rocky Marciano proved that under Marquess of Queensbury rules he could beat up anyone in the world, the late heavyweight champion earned a considerable reputation as a catcher. In fact, he claimed the Chicago Cubs offered him a handsome bonus to sign with their National League baseball club. As the Rock told it, he carefully weighed the choice of careers presented him, and finally selected the spaciousness of the prizefighting ring over the confines of home plate. When asked if she was dismayed by his decision, his mother reportedly replied: "I didn't raise...
Died. The Marquess of Salisbury, 78, the Tory blueblood whose high-pitched stammer echoed through British Parliament for more than four decades; of fibrosis of the lung; in Hertfordshire, England. Salisbury belonged to a family of politicians whose influence dated back 400 years to Elizabethan times. A man of rigid principle, he resigned from government in 1938 to protest his party's appeasement of Mussolini. He was later called back to office by Winston Churchill, became leader of the House of Lords, and in 1957 played a pivotal role in the selection of, Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister...
Married. Stavros Niarchos, 62, millionaire Greek shipowner; and Tina Livanos Onassis, 42, recently divorced from the Marquess of Blandford; he for the fifth time, she for the third; in Paris. The ceremony marked the latest round of marital musical chairs, Olympian division. Shortly after World War II, Niarchos and his business rival, Aristotle Onassis, courted and won the daughters of Shipping Magnate Stavros Livanos. Tina wed Onassis, whom she later divorced. Niarchos, in the meantime, married and divorced Tina's older sister Eugenie. Later, he wed Henry Ford II's daughter Charlotte, then returned to Eugenie, who died...
...McCULLOUGH: We are playing under entirely different ground rules, the Marquess of Queensberry rules v. street fighting. Our foreign competition uses street-fighting rules...
...latest version of the copper bracelet fad began in Britain during the early '60s and quickly spread to the Continent. In both London and Paris, the green-stained wrist has become a mark of distinction. Among the wearers are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lord Snowdon, the Marquess of Bath (who thoughtfully sells the bracelets to sightseers at a souvenir stand outside his castle), Pierre Cardin, Coco Chanel and Stavros Niarchos. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, the eminent historian, has been wearing his bracelet for three or four years and says its effects are "frightfully good." He admits that...