Word: banker-sportsman
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...pages by slapping a $7,000 suit on one of his clients. The client: Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, who had commissioned a Dali portrait of herself, and then declined to pay when it was completed. Snapped husband William Woodward Jr., who recently inherited the Belair racing stable of his banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort of slapped together in unpleasant, grey, grim colors . . . We wouldn't have had it if Dali paid us." At his summer home on Spain's Costa Brava...
Married. Jaime Ortiz Patino, 25, Bolivian tin heir, nephew of Tin Baron Antenor Patino; and Joanne Connelly, 23, former Manhattan debutante; he for the first time, she for the second (five months after her previous marriage, to Banker-Sportsman Robert Sweeny, ended in divorce); in Paris...
Married. Margaret Osborne, 29, homespun hazel-eyed tennist (seven times national women's doubles champion, 1947 Wimbledon singles titleholder); and William du Pont, 51, banker-sportsman; she for the first time, he for the second; in Wilmington...
Married. Ethel Woodward, socialite daughter of Banker-Sportsman William Woodward, owner of three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox, Omaha, Johnstown); and Philippe de Croisset, veteran of Dunkirk, son of the late Parisian Playwright François de Croisset; in Manhattan...
Divorced. William du Pont Jr., 46, banker-sportsman member of the Wilmington Du Ponts; from Jean Austin du Pont, his wife for 22 years; for cruelty; in Reno. Brushing aside questions about whether he meant to marry Tennist Alice Marble, Banker du Pont rushed to pack his bags, fly to see his Fairy Chant lose the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...