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Died. Ethel du Pont Roosevelt Warren, 49, shy, handsome daughter of the late Du Pont Director Eugene, great-great-granddaughter of Company Founder Eleuthere Irenee and heiress to a $5 million share in the chemical fortune, whose spectacular 1937 marriage to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (among the 1,300 guests: some 600 Du Ponts, 200 Roosevelts, President F.D.R., virtually the entire U.S. Cabinet) brought a lasting truce between the two bitterly warring families, but was itself a failure ending in a 1949 divorce, after which she embarked on another unhappy marriage, grew increasingly depressed and spent frequent periods in rest...
...Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier...
...Various of her songs at one time or another have popped to the top of the hit parade in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Rumania and Switzerland. At her home base, Paris, where the tousled blonde is possessively known as "La Petulante Petula," she has collected the Grand Prix du Disque (just like Edith Piaf and Yves Montand before her), and earlier this year got the Bravos du Music Hall, France's annual award to the female show-business success of the year...
...which was apparently just what the audience wanted. They gasped when the first offering, an 8-in. by 61-in. pencil and crayon drawing by Pissarro, drew a walloping $2,300. From then on, there was no stopping them. Bids came in volleys as Chagall's La Madone du Village shot up to $82,500 (v. his previous all-time high of $77,500). Bonnard's opalescent bath peekaboo at his wife, La Glace Haute, went to the Carnegie Institute for $155,000 (v. $101,000). When Degas' Repetition de Ballet, a pastel and gouache painting considered...
...other university endowment funds have since followed suit-and why not? Harvard's insurance company equities alone have trebled to a current worth of $58 million, and its other interests include $108 million in oil and gas, $160 million in public utilities. Among star performers: $10 million in Du Pont, $12.5 million in General Motors and $26 million in IBM. Surprisingly, there are also educational experts outside Harvard who are not overwhelmed by its wealth. John W. Gardner, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and a Stanford man, says that "in terms of the tasks...