PENNSYLVANIA: The Philadelphia Princess

"I don't generally approve of these oddballs she goes out with," John Bernard ("Kell") Kelly Jr., the national sculling champion, said last year (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). He was referring to the foreign-born escorts his beautiful sister, Cinemactress Grace Kelly, seemed to prefer. "I wish," he added wistfully, "that she would go out with the more athletic type."

In those days sister Grace was showing a distinct preference for such indoor sports as Dress Designer Oleg Cassini and Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont. Last fortnight another young foreigner came to call on Grace at...

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