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...Drayton Plains, Mich...
Born. To Count Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 52, and his second heiress-wife, Margaret Drayton Reventlow, 31 (great-granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor): a son, her first, his second (his first was by Heiress Barbara Hutton); in Newport, R.I. Name: Richard Court. Weight...
...feel we have about the best buy in the hotel," say Frederick Drayton '46 (History) and his wife Edith. Almost paradoxically, each couple seems to feel it ha the "best buy," and proceeds to go about making the most of the meager furniture which is provided--two chairs, a "sofa" and a table for the living room; a chair, bed or beds, and chest of drawers for the bedroom. Rooms on the first three floors of the Brunswick's five are a stately type, set off with bay windows overlooking Boylston Street for Copley Square, and fireplaces which comprise 19th...
...getting around that ex-Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...
...Drayton was the Thoroughbred Racing Associations' second choice for his job, created to root out postwar racing's "undesirable elements." The T.R.A. offered the post first to J. Edgar Hoover, followed his advice when he recommended his onetime assistant, laconic, cigar-smoking Spencer Drayton, who had helped capture the Nazi saboteurs who landed on Long Island in June, 1942. Drayton has hired practically no one but ex-FBI men as investigators. Their chief trouble so far: baseless "tips" from people who have bet on the wrong horse. Even so, Drayton thinks his job is valuable. Says...