People, Jul. 16, 1973

During their nine years of marriage Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor have loved to fight. No one really took them seriously, however, and even when they tried acting mad, it wasn't always successful. Divorce His and Divorce Hers, their first TV movies, bombed badly (TIME, July 2). Yet there they were, visiting New York from Rome and announcing a separation. In a handwritten note to the press, Elizabeth said she and her husband had been in "each other's pockets constantly" and that she was convinced separation was a "good, constructive idea." She then flew with their adopted daughter, Maria, to Los Angeles. Meanwhile Richard put out his own press release. "I don't consider Elizabeth and I are actually separated. It's just that our private and professional interests are keeping us apart."

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"To be having a baby comes as such a surprise. It is contrary to all the technological advances of mankind," said the dumbfounded father-to-be, Actor Tony Perkins. His pregnant friend is Photographer Berry Berenson, sister of Actress Marisa Berenson and granddaughter of Designer Elsa Schiaparelli. At the moment, the couple, who have been living together since January in Tony's Manhattan apartment, have no definite wedding date. They want to "enjoy this unexpected pleasure first."

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"I am in love with another woman, Mrs. Jeanne Dorsey, and I intend to marry her," Governor Marvin Mandel, 53, of Maryland said in a statement that his press secretary read to reporters. There had been rumors, and specific denials by the Governor, about his romance with Mrs. Dorsey, a handsome, tall divorcee in her mid-thirties whose former husband is a Maryland state senator. Confronted with the latest news, Mrs. Mandel, 53, declared that she was "astonished, amazed and unbelieving. We shared the same bed for 32 years. As a matter of fact, we got out of the same bed this morning." She explained that her husband's job "must have got to him." She would stay in the Governor's mansion, she insisted, and "remain Mrs. Marvin Mandel."

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At 72, Baron Philippe de Rothschild−millionaire, writer, angel to the arts, superlative host, vintner−was the Frenchman with almost everything. After years of behind-the-scenes pressure, Rothschild received the appellation of premier grand cru for his family's Château Mouton-Rothschild, long regarded as one of the noblest red wines. The first official change in the sacrosanct 1855. classification of clarets puts Mouton-Rothschild in the select category of first-growth château wines, joining Haut-Brion, Latour, Margaux, and Lafite. Certain rare vintage bottles of Mouton-Rofhschild, with their elegant labels by such artists as Marc Chagall, and Henry Moore, were running as high as $8,500 a case at wine auctions, even before the new classification.

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