Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Engaged. Beatrice Anna Cabot Lodge, 22, handsome, trilingual (Spanish, French Italian) daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Spain John Davis Lodge and niece of Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge; and Antonio de Oyarzabal y Marchesi, 25, second-generation member of the Spanish diplomatic corps. Wedding date: July 6, on the...
Died. Keith Thomson, 41, Republican Senator-elect from Wyoming, who would have been the first man in the state's history to move up from the House of Representatives (where he was Wyoming's lone delegate for six years); of a heart attack; in Cody, Wyo. The youngest...
Died. Clara Haskil, 65, Rumanian-born concert pianist who made her debut in Vienna at seven, won her first Grand Prix in Paris at 14, later played sonatas with such luminaries as Violinists Enesco and Ysaye, Cellist Casals; of injuries suffered in a fall; in a railroad station in Brussels...
Died. Walter Dorwin Teague, 76, dean of American industrial designers and apostle of functionalism, who reshaped thousands of machine-age products ranging from the exterior of cameras ("Baby Brownie") and cars (Marmon 16) to the interior of jet planes (Boeing 707), but who preferred to live in a 250-year...
When lovely woman stoops to the folly of autobiography, the enterprise is all too often flawed by malice, self-pity or a simple failure to grasp the fact that a book is not always interesting to others because its author is interesting to herself. Lady Diana Cooper escapes these dangers...