House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr.'s office staff proudly reported that since the boss took over in January he had had five marriage proposals, by mail, from complete strangers. But Bachelor Martin, who is 62 and lives in a hotel, was not having any.
Barbara Hutton, 34, was having some more despite her famed swearing-off statement of last April. ("You can't go on being a fool forever," she said then.) The synthetically svelte, fashionably deadpanned heiress married her fourth in a snowy Swiss town. At the start it was rather picturesque and dashing. (She...
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