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Suffolk County Court House at Riverhead, Long Island, was hearing a repeat of one of society's best late late shows: the house-wrecking escapade of some 65 young bloods after the Southampton coming-out party of Philadelphia Debutante Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill (TIME, Sept. 13). Seven combat veterans of the after-party brawl were hailed to court on charges of "malicious mischief" in causing $6,000 worth of damage to a beach house Fernanda's stepfather Donald Leas had rented to put up a bunch of the boys for the weekend...
...more than 800 guests invited to the coming-out party of Philadelphia debutante Miss Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill...
...fallout was still raining down from that after-debut brawl that left a Southampton, L.I., mansion in ruins and resulted in indictments for 14 young socialites. To make sure that nothing like that happens to her again, Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, 18, and her parents have called off a second coming-out party, which was to be held at Christmastime in a Philadelphia hotel. The money will go to a local boys' school-"a much better cause," allowed her stepfather. Said Fern: ".It was the only thing to do. This whole deb business is getting me down...
...polite R.S.V.P. But only two people showed up, and so the Suffolk County, L.I., district attorney scheduled another try for his after-the-party party. This time he sent subpoenas to be sure he got testimony about the damage done to an old Southampton mansion after the debut of Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, 18. After hearing the story, a grand jury returned indictments against 13 young social lions and one girl, Subdeb Mimi Russell, 17, daughter of Vogue Publisher Edwin Russell. If convicted of the misdemeanor, they each face up to six months in jail and $250 in fines...
Molyneux termed the indictment against him "completely unjustified." His contention seems to be supported by Mrs. Leas, who has invited him to another coming-out party for Fernanda to be held this December in Philadelphia. According to Mrs. Leas, who has also cleared two of the other indicted youths, Molyneux "didn't do anything...