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...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...
...reason came from Hearst Gossip Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker (Igor Cassini), who used to mention Gilbert frequently, and whose public relations firm had handled E. L. Bruce. Cassini lost at least $30,000 himself in Gilbert's crash and then committed the calumny of calling his oldtime pal "a crook." After a Park Avenue stroll with a pipe-puffing Gilbert last week, Cholly chronicled all. "Eddie said he 'couldn't let down' his parents, his wife and children, his friends and all those who believed in him. 'I also wanted...
Society P.R. people maintain a symbiotic relationship with another type of pro that has burgeoned during the postwar years-the Society gossip columnist. In Manhattan there is hardly any real gossip in the daily flow of words from golf-playing Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini, in the Journal American, or good-natured Joseph X. Dever in the World-Telegram, or bland Nancy Randolph in the Daily News, or even the entertainingly abrasive "Suzy" (Aileen Mehle) in the Mirror. The fascinating intelligence that Mercedes de Footwork had lunch at the Purple Tulip is good for a line any time...
This, however, was not the opinion of Igor ("Ghighi") Cassini, who as the Hearst chain's "Cholly Knickerbocker" plays chief tale-teller to the jet set, and used to namedrop the Gilberts in his column with insistent frequency. "Ghighi didn't lose a potful," said Gilbert last week. "Well, maybe he did-for him. It was about $30,000." Potful or not, Cassini's losses were big enough to have erased all his happy memories of the days when he enjoyed the expensive hospitality of the Gilberts' Riviera villa. Snapped Ghighi last week: "Nobody expected what...