Word: betsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador-designate to the Court of St. James's, at the Long Island estate of his sister, Joan Whitney Payson, co-owner with Whitney of the famed Greentree Stable. Next day, in a Manhattan hospital recovering from gastric ulcer surgery, the diplomat-to-be's wife, Betsey Gushing Whitney, heard a special tape recording of the tributes paid her husband at the dinner. Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard Halliday and his musicomedienne wife Mary Martin, retiring G.O.P...
...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...
Jimmy and Romelle met in 1938 when he was an ulcer patient, she a nurse at the Mayo Clinic. Jimmy soon became Rommie's favorite patient, and when his first wife, Boston's Betsey Gushing Roosevelt (now Mrs. John Hay Whitney), divorced him, he married Romelle. After the war, they settled down in California and had three children. There were a few minor disturbances, such as the time Romelle went to the hospital after swallowing 15 seconal tablets, but, in general, life seemed to be tranquil indeed-for Roosevelts. A month ago Jimmy filed a separation suit against...
...week these names made this news: Her parents announced that Sara Delano Roosevelt, 21, socialite millionheiress and granddaughter of F.D.R., will become the June bride of a Manhattan barber's son. A Bryn Mawr junior, the bride-to-be is the daughter of Jimmie Roosevelt and the former Betsey Gushing, who divorced Roosevelt in 1940 and is now the wife of Financier John Hay ("Jock&") Whitney. The engagement announcement broke the news that Whitney, with the consent of Jimmie Roosevelt, had legally adopted Sara in 1949 to put her in line for the family fortune (reportedly around $50 million...
...BETSEY BROWN: Briggs; Choral; Idler; president, Christian Felowship; Freshman Weekend; work chairman, Briggs...