1 GREAT BRITAIN 2-12 REMEMBER MRS . SWEENY ? YOU'RE THE TOP, 
YOU'RE MUSSOLINI, YOU'RE MRS . SWEENY, YOU'RE CAMEMBERT . BACK IN 
1935, WHEN COLE PORTER'S ANYTHING GOES WAS THE HOTTEST TICKET IN 
TOWN, MARGARET WHIGHAM SWEENY WAS MORE TOP THAN MICKEY MOUSE OR 
A COOLIDGE DOLLAR . CHIC, BEAUTIFUL AND RICH IN HER OWN 
RIGHT, THE 21-YEAR-OLD ENGLISH BEAUTY WAS MARRIED TO GENTLEMAN GOLFER CHARLES 
SWEENY, FOR WHOM, THE GOSSIP COLUMNISTS INSISTED, SHE HAD JILTED THE 
YOUNG EARL OF WARWICK . THAT SAME YEAR IAN CAMPBELL MADE 
HEADLINES BY TAKING AS HIS SECOND WIFE LOUISE VANNECK, DAUGHTER OF 
U.S . SCULPTOR HENRY CLEWS . (HIS FIRST : JANET AITKEN, 
LORD BEAVERBROOK'S DAUGHTER.) THOUGH UNMENTIONED IN THE SONG, CAMPBELL WAS EVEN 
MORE TOP THAN MRS . SWEENY . IN 1949 HE BECAME 
DUKE OF ARGYLL (FAMILY MOTTO : " FORGET NOT " ), 
CHIEF OF CLAN CAMPBELL, HEREDITARY MASTER OF THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD IN 
SCOTLAND, ADMIRAL OF THE WESTERN COASTS AND ISLES, HEREDITARY SHERIFF OF 
ARGYLL, KEEPER OF DUNSTAFFNAGE, CARRICK, TARBERT AND DUNOON CASTLES, AND HEIR 
TO A BURKE'S DOZEN EARLDOMS, VISCOUNTCIES, MARQUISATES AND BARONETCIES . FAVORED 
FOUR . IN 1951, TWO WEEKS AFTER A LURID DIVORCE FROM 
LOUISE, THE DUKE MARRIED MRS . SWEENY . LAST WEEK IN 
EDINBURGH, THE TOPPERS TOO WERE DIVORCED . THEIR DECREE, 65,000 WORDS 
LONG, TOOK THE JUDGE, LORD WHEATLEY, 4F HOURS TO READ THROUGH 
. IT WAS NO COLE PORTER LYRIC . ON THE BASIS 
OF THE EVIDENCE, DECLARED THE JUDGE, THE DUCHESS, NOW 49, " 
WAS A COMPLETELY PROMISCUOUS WOMAN WHOSE SEXUAL APPETITE COULD ONLY BE 
SATISFIED BY A NUMBER OF MEN . " HE NAMED FOUR 
SPECIFIC ADULTERERS : JOHN COHANE, 50, A U.S . BUSINESSMAN LIVING 
IN IRELAND WHOM THE COURT DESCRIBED AS A " SELF-CONFESSED WOLF 
" WITH " THE MORALS OF A TOMCAT " ; HARVEY 
COMBE, 37, ONETIME PRESS OFFICER AT LONDON'S SAVOY HOTEL ; BARON 
SIGISMUND VON BRAUN, 52, BROTHER OF ROCKET SCIENTIST WERNHER, WHO WAS 
COUNSELOR OF WEST GERMANY'S LONDON EMBASSY UNTIL 1958, AND IS NOW 
HIS GOVERNMENT'S U.N . OBSERVER IN NEW YORK ; AND AN 
UNIDENTIFIED PARTNER WHO HAD BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE NUDE WITH THE 
DUCHESS . THE JUDGE DID NOT SPARE THE DUKE, WHO, HE 
SAID, ADMITTED THAT HE HAD SHOWN / PORNOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS " TO 
" A MIXED GATHERING IN NEW YORK AND SEEMED TO TREAT 
IT AS A JOKE . " ADDED THE JUDGE : " 
I DO NOT COMMEND HIS STANDARD OF TASTE AND HABITS . 
" HOME WITH HARVEY . THOUGH ARGYLL HAD ALREADY DISCOVERED SUSPICIOUS 
LETTERS TO HIS WIFE AND A DIARY INSCRIBED WITH " CRYPTIC 
" SIGNALS, HE " SUCCUMBED TO HER CHARMS, " AS THE 
COURT PUT IT . THUS, THE DUKE, SAID JUDGE WHEATLEY, HAD 
" CONDONED / HIS WIFE'S ADULTERY WITH VON BRAUN BY RESUMING 
MARITAL RELATIONS WITH HER IN PARIS . THE DIVORCE WAS GRANTED 
ON THE GROUNDS OF HER ADULTERY IN 1960 WITH HARVEY COMBE 
AT THE ARGYLLS' LONDON HOUSE IN UPPER GROSVENOR STREET . THE 
ARGYLLS' LITIGATION, WHICH HAD DRAGGED ON FOR 3F YEARS, WAS THE 
LONGEST, MOST EXPENSIVE (ESTIMATED COST : $140,000) AND MOST SENSATIONAL IN 
SCOTTISH HISTORY . AND IT MAY NOT BE OVER, SINCE THE 
DUCHESS HAS SAID THAT SHE PLANS TO APPEAL THE COURT'S VERDICT 
. IN ANY CASE, SHE STILL FACES CHARGES OF LIBEL AND 
CONSPIRACY TO SUSTAIN A MALICIOUS CHARGE OF ADULTERY, STEMMING FROM HER 
OWN DIVORCE PETITION AGAINST THE DUKE, WHICH SHE DROPPED LAST MAY 
. IN THAT SUIT, SHE ACCUSED HER HUSBAND OF COMMITTING ADULTERY 
WITH HER STEPMOTHER . 