Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This reasoning proved fallacious for Playwright Kyle Crichton, who had a 1956 Broadway flop with The Happiest Millionaire, which was based on the Philadelphia childhood reminiscences of Cordelia Drexel Biddle. The formula fails again in Walt Disney's movie musical. The main trouble this time is that Fred MacMurray's impersonation of Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle is eccentric but not lovable. He is, in fact, a boor...
...ourselves in duplicate or triplicate," says Jo Hughes. Besides, the situation could have been a whole lot worse. For the same $500 dress is owned by no fewer than 150 women, including such other notables as Ethel Kennedy, Cee-Zee Guest, Mrs. Douglas Dillon, Mrs. John R. Drexel III and Mrs. Arthur Gardner. Worn on those backs, proclaimed Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker, "it's the dress of the year...
...feel sexy, you can open all the snaps," says Jean Tailer. "And if a woman has any figure problems, the dress disguises them." "I'm sick of the flowing dresses that have been around-I love the huggy feeling this dress gives your figure," says Noreen Drexel, who wore hers to dinner at the White House recently and got compliments from all the men. Says Socialite Ames Gushing, who works as De La Renta's assistant: "I feel beautiful in it. It's regal, but it's comfortable...
...baseball's grand old man, Connie Mack, who after playing and managing in the minors helped his father as assistant manager and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics until 1954 when Connie, at 91, sold the club to Arnold Johnson for Kansas City; of a stroke; in Drexel Hill...
Married. Pamela Drexel, 24, a student at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, whose blue blood flows from the Philadelphia banking Drexels and from Baron Camoys who fought at Agincourt; and Bradford Walker, 26, a Wall Street stockbroker whose great-great-great-great-great-great-greatgrandfather was Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony; in Manhattan...