Word: fifi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joseph Early Widener, 71, famed multimillionaire collector of purse-winning horses ; purse-weakening art ; of a heart attack; in Elkins Park, Pa. The shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande...
Married. Joan Widener Leidy, 17, daughter of "Fifi" Widener Leidy Wichfeld (now 37) and granddaughter of Philadelphia's art-loving, horse-loving Millionaire Joseph E. Widener ; and George Eustis Paine Jr., 20; at Newport...
...bill included Comedian Milton Berle, Tap Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, Singers Jane Froman, Ginger Harmon and Fifi D'Orsay - who favored soldier assistants with lipsticky kisses. Proof of Billy Rose's success was the raucous approval of the previously hot, bored soldiers. Greatly pleased was the Citizens Committee for the Army & Navy, Inc., now in charge of all professional Army & Navy entertainment. Last week routes were being charted for seven show-mobiles...