Word: alicja
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Windfall Widow Alicja Kopczynska Purdom Clark-who during the week downgraded her age from 32 to 28 and doubled her estimated inheritance (TIME, Dec. 1) to $20 million-came new light on her 13-day marriage to the late Singer Sewing Machine Heir Alfred Corning Clark. Insisted the Polish-born playgirl, who dabbles in painting between café society rounds: "This money would have been left to me whether I married Mr. Clark or not." Echoed her attorney: "Even if the marriage [Clark's sixth] had not survived, she would have gotten it all." Why? Well, explained Alicja...
Last September, 13 days after she became the sixth wife of Singer Sewing Machine Scion Alfred Corning Clark, Alicja Kopczynska Purdom, 32, became his widow. Last week came news that the Polish-born playgirl painter, whose previous marriage to Cinemactor Edmund Purdom was highlighted by clamorous clashes on two continents, had her future sewed up. Ten weeks before he died in his sleep at the family barony of Cooperstown, N.Y., Clark redrew his will to leave to Alicja the bulk of his $10 million estate...
Died. Alfred Corning Clark, 45, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, just 14 days after he married his sixth wife, 30-year-old Painter Alicja Darr Purdom; in his sleep; in Cooperstown...
Married. Alfred Corning Clark, 45, multimillionaire scion of the Singer Sewing Machine clan; and Alicja Darr (nee Kopczynska) Purdom, 30, Polish-born painter once stormily married to Cinemactor Edmund Purdom; he for the sixth time (in 20 years), she for the second; in Cooperstown...