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...Joseph Green Jr., 52, the rosy-faced, soft-spoken son of an Irish saloonkeeper. It was Green who first helped Dilworth toward public office; in 1951 Dilworth was part of a reform ticket that ended 67 years of corrupt Republican rule in Philadelphia. But Green soon came to consider Blueblood Dilworth too independent, and a bit of a snob to boot; and Dilworth had little feeling for Old Pro Green's brand of politicking. After Dilworth became mayor in 1956, Green feuded with him regularly over Philadelphia patronage...
...company board chairman laid on another successful gala, the title was in doubt. The latest refulgent debutante: Charlotte's sister, Anne Ford, 18. Paris Decorator Jacques Frank spent more than a year turning the Fords' Grosse Pointe Farms estate into a Versailles-like setting for the familiar blueblood-boiling beat of Bandleader Meyer Davis. And not even an hours-long downpour-which soaked through the turquoise-colored roof of the vast pavilion and kept a mop-and-bucket brigade of 70 swabbing through the night -could douse the enthusiasm of the stag line, as Anne's photograph...
...Blueblooded Watchdog. Strangely, the man who exposed the scandals was a fellow Democrat, a onetime protege of Dilworth's and an official in his administration. Like the mayor, City Controller Alexander Hemphill, 40, is a well-heeled blueblood with an Ivy League background (University of Pennsylvania '43). The father of seven, he is the godfather of a Dilworth grandchild, and a fancier of Utrillo and Rouault prints. He also takes his watchdog job as city controller seriously -so seriously that when he decided to run for election in 1957, Dilworth tried to persuade him to withdraw. Says Hemphill...
Fifth in Line. If the prospective father was beaming, the chroniclers of Britain's blueblood lines were cracking their knuckles. The offspring will be fifth in line in succession to the British throne, after Queen Elizabeth's three children and its mother. But since children take title from the father, the child will be born a commoner. The possibility that agitated royalists: Britain's throne might some day be occupied by somebody called Mr. (or Miss) Jones...
...alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner in the royal family was enough, Olaf set his foot down, insisted that Astrid marry some true blueblood. In fast succession. Astrid turned her nose up at a series of princelings who could not distinguish between the stern and the spinnaker. Meanwhile, frustrated Suitor Ferner drifted into a marriage with an Oslo model, but by 1956 he was divorced and once again afloat with Astrid. They won many...