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...first job as a $16-a-week Wall Street buzzer boy, he rose to head the highly profitable J. H. Whitney & Co. (investments). Even as he was getting into the social news with his stable of racers and steeplechasers, his polo playing, his first marriage to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus, and his second to Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, he was combining business and the arts by backing some 30 Broadway plays, e.g., Life With Father, and helping stake Hollywood Producer David O. Selznick in such highly profitable productions as Rebecca and Gone With the Wind...
Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney Person, 48, socialite horsewoman; and Richard Lunn, 40, public-relations man; she for the third time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay ["Jock"] Whitney), he for the second; in Washington...
Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney, 42, hell-for-leather socialite horsewoman; and Dr. E. Cooper Person Jr., 38, surgery professor; she for the second time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay-"Jock"- Whitney, now married to Betsey Cushing Roosevelt), he for the first; in Upperville...
Peter Arno, heavyweight cartoonist, denied a gossip-column report that he had been beaten up at a party by another guest (junior-size) of Horsewoman Elizabeth Altemus Whitney's in Warrenton, Va. Actually, said Arno, the little fellow just hit him in the back of the head with a rock. Knocked him cold. (Arno's friends told him about it.) Then somebody else beat up the rock-slinger...
...Altemus Whitney, hunt-country rumors indicate, is the reason for the bustup in the Jim Wileys' household...