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...Princess still yearns for her rejected airman, Peter Townsend, and hopes that if both of them turn Catholic, his former marriage might be annulled and they could marry in the Roman Catholic faith...
Advocate alumni have found time, however, to do more in a literary way than the titles above would indicate. Among their ranks are not only Eliot, Aiken, and DeVoto, but George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Van Wyck Brooks, e.e. cummings, Robert Hillyer, Malcolm Cowley, and James Laughlin. In the dramatic line, John Mason Brown, Lincoln Kirstein, and Leonard Bernstein were Advocateers. A few have even become political luminaries: Teddy and F.D. Roosevelt, as well as A.M. Schlesinger, Jr. Such a list is certainly a telling justification for the Advocate's existence. That the alumni...
...world!" cried London's easily shocked Sunday The People. "She" was none other than Princess Margaret, a fixture on most rosters of the world's best-dressed women. Seeming to care less for conventional ensembles than she did before her cliff-hanging rejection of Group Captain Peter Townsend, Margaret had turned up for the races at London's suburban Hurst Park in an outfit that, for once, really stunned fashionabobs. Her arresting getup: a heavy, goblin-style hat, a fur-collared, knee-length cloth coat with mannish lapels, a dress of another material but with black buttons...
...looked at the weather map, you would have seen it was in the cards." In Brussels, comely Countess Alvina Van Limburg Stirum, 43, was asked about rumors that she will soon be engaged to the ex-suitor of Britain's Princess Margaret, Group Captain Peter Townsend, 41, an air attache at Britain's local embassy. Snorted she: "Absolute nonsense." Seconded Townsend: "Complete nonsense." Added the countess: "I have a close sporting friendship with Captain Townsend." Back in England, meanwhile, Margaret's life seemed much the mixture as before. Looking a trifle wan (she was getting over...
Monday afternoon I, with the rest of the world, read the details on the Margaret-Townsend affair. Wednesday morning, across the continent from your editorial offices, TIME arrived with the story...