Word: cassini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghighi, who was born in Russia and was twelve years older than Charlene, appealed to her, and in 1952 she became his third wife. His second, Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, had divorced him, married William Randolph Hearst Jr., Cassini's boss. Ghighi was Hearst's top society columnist, using the pseudonym of Cholly Knickerbocker...
...knows? She met a man whose name was Igor Cassini. Everybody called him Ghighi. He loved society, in all its forms, and he made a living by chronicling its activities. He knew enough and he got around so fast that his column was very readable...
Ghighi and Charlene were close to that group. And Ghighi's brother, Oleg Cassini, is Jackie Kennedy's official dress designer. Even Ghighi admits that the Kennedys like Oleg better than they like him. But he insists he and Charlene rated high with the White House: "There is a good relationship between the President and Mrs. Kennedy and us." White House sources, on the other hand, insist that the Kennedys had socialized precious little with the Igor Cassinis since the inauguration...
...Hearst Papers' Cholly Knickerbocker, he invented the name "jet set" and chronicled and shared in its gossipy escapades. Under his real monicker, Igor Cassini, 47, was on kissing terms with the Kennedys; his brother Oly is Jackie's favorite dress designer, and his third wife is the daughter of Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman, the Kennedys' neighbor in Palm Beach, Fla. Such weight did he swing that he was instrumental in having Diplomat Robert D. Murphy sent on a secret White House mission in 1961 to listen to the laments of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael...
...World of Jacqueline Kennedy (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). A look at the First Lady's public and private lives, with comments on both from Pierre Salinger, Oleg Cassini, Margaret Mead and the late Eleanor Roosevelt...