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The world's best-known rejected suitor, ex-R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, 44, found a new bride-to-be four years after Britain's Princess Margaret sadly said no. In Brussels, it was announced that he will marry Marie-Luce ("Mosquito") Jamagne, 20, daughter of a prosperous Antwerp cigarette maker. Barred from marriage to Margaret because of his previous divorce, Airman Townsend first met Marie-Luce when she was 15, took her along last year as a photographer when he repeated highlights of his round-the-world journey before movie cameras. Since Marie-Luce is a Roman Catholic, his "delicate" status as a divorced man still plagues him.
Winthrop Rockefeller, 47, sometime playboy, now Arkansas' most sophisticated gentleman farmer and a sponsor of industrialization in his adopted state, seemed verging on a political career. He allowed that he might just like to be the next Governor of Arkansas. But with typical Rockefeller aplomb, he made his ambitions sound selfless. Said the brother of New York's Republican Governor: "I would not ever run as a Democrat, but would take an independent stand. Unfortunately, the Republican label is still fatal in Arkansas. What the South needs is a real two-party system. If I could do anything to further this, I would."
Second Lady Patricia Nixon confided to a capital newshen that she has long kept a daily diary. What's more, said Pat, she was advised by Nina Khrushchev, during Grandma Nina's recent visit, that she should expand her jottings into a book. But Diarist Nixon is compiling her memoirs for only two eventual readers: daughters Tricia, 13, and Julie, 11.
Embarking from Marseille on a five-month cruise to the Far East, old (85) Author W. Somerset Maugham snorted at a rumor that he is penning a new novel. Although Maugham has had done with writing many times, he made it sound almost authentic this time. "Listen!" he erupted. "I'm only an extinct volcano!"