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In Laredo, Texas, new love and disillusion met by chance over a cup of coffee at a drugstore counter. Nancy Oakes, whose former husband was acquitted of murdering her millionaire father in the Bahamas, was on her way to Mexico City with plans to marry Ernst Lyssard Hoyn-ingen Huene, a titled German student from Oberammergau. Next to her sat Anita Roddy-Eden, who was awarded a divorce and a $50,000 settlement after living with Tommy Manville for twelve days as his ninth wife. Said Nancy: "May I have the sugar?" Answered Anita: "Certainly." Meanwhile, Tommy Manville had picked out wife No. 10: 24-year-old, blonde Corrine Daly from Brooklyn, who made the grade by trying to sell him her sailboat.
In a Miami court, 30 minutes of legal business dissolved the six-year marriage of Richard J. Reynolds, 46-year-old tobacco heir, and his flame-haired wife, Marianne O'Brien. Reynolds, who gave his first wife a $3,000,000 settlement, settled this time for $2,000,000, which included $750,000 (tax free) for Marianne; $10,000 a year for their two sons. The next day, on a private island off Georgia, Reynolds took his third wife, the former Mrs. Muriel Greenough of Toronto, a World War II war correspondent. Reynolds announced that they would fly to London early next month for the launching of his newest yacht and would start on a round-the-world honeymoon cruise.
Barbara Mutton and her 16-year-old son Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, who suffers from asthma and has been attending school in Arizona, flew to Honolulu for a vacation. At the airport they met a familiar barrier: reporters chasing down a rumor. Lance, whose titled Danish father still has his custody half the year, stood patiently on the sidelines to watch his experienced mother in action as the reporters closed in. Was she going to take her old friend, British-born Socialite David Pleydell-Bouverie, as her fifth husband? Said Barbara: "Good heavens, must I always be marrying? ... I read in the papers that I am marrying the most extraordinary people."
In Portland, fresh from a fishing trip along Oregon's McKenzie and Rogue Rivers, Herbert Hoover sat down to a 78th-birthday party with some 600 fellow engineers who hailed him as "the engineer of the century." Suntanned and beaming, the ex-President replied, "I am always embarrassed by such introductions. They are like cologne water. The fragrance is wonderful, but you mustn't take them internally."
On a downtown street in Rochester, N.Y., word spread that Dwight Eisenhower was getting a shave in a nearby barbershop. A crowd gathered to gape, while the customer in the chair chuckled and even posed for a picture. His name: Leo A. Mathews, a San Francisco businessman who is a remarkable lookalike. Said Mathews: "This has been going on for ten years, and I enjoy it." He has met Mrs. Eisenhower, but never the general.