Monday, Oct. 24, 1960
Married. Glynis Margaret Johns, 37, South African-born stage and movie actress, who only last year confided that "I get suspicious when I meet a man over 35 who is unmarried--I always wonder why"; and Cecil Henderson, 49, wealthy publishing house director; she for the third time, he for the first; in London.
Married. Viscount Astor, 53, eldest son of Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor and onetime Member of Parliament; and Bronwen Pugh, 29, top fashion model and daughter of an English county judge; he for the third time, she for the first; in a London borough office.
Remarried. Grace Metalious, 35, lusty chronicler of the deflowering of modern New England (Peyton Place); and George Metalious, 35, her first husband and father of her three children, who is now guidance director of a Martha's Vineyard, Mass, high school; at Elkton, Md.. only a day after Grace divorced her second husband, Laconia. N.H. Disk Jockey Thomas J. ("T.J. the D.J.") Martin. "After I had left T.J.." explained Novelist Metalious, "I sat for a long time in my house in New Hampshire. Last spring one day George came to my house and said, 'Now are you ready to come home?' I said, ;Yes.' " Her current project: a spicy expose of indecencies, rampant and couchant, among the winter colony on Martha's Vineyard.
Died. Prince Franc,ois de France, 25, second son of eleven children of the Count de Paris and thus third in line of succession to the nonexistent throne of France; in a skirmish with Algerian rebels while serving as a second lieutenant with a French army infantry battalion; in Algeria's Kabylia Mountains.
Died. James F. Brownlee, 69, business executive (American Sugar Refining, General Foods, Frankfort Distilleries) and investment banker (Manhattan's J. H. Whitney & Co.), Acting OPAdministrator in 1945, chairman of the Ford Foundation's Advisory Committee, co-founder of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools; of a heart attack; at his home in Fairfield, Conn. Soft-spoken Harvardman Brownlee ('13) got his start as a sugar salesman, then turned his talents to whisky (Four Roses'), gradually gravitated to public service and became a top authority on economic controls.
Died. His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, G.C.B.. G.C.M.G., G.B.E., the Sultan of Zanzibar, 81, who had reigned over Britain's East African island protectorate since 1911; of a heart attack; in his royal palace. One of the most benign of small-time despots, the British-admiring Sultan was highly regarded by the quarter-million inhabitants of his spice isle, most of them Moslem blacks known as "God's Poor," the rest chiefly higher-class Arabs descended from conquerors of yore.
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