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...first took over the Times-Herald column, "These Charming People," when Columnist Igor ("Ghighi") Cassini, her first husband, went off to war. She kept it when Cassini became the Journal-American's "Cholly Knickerbocker" three years ago. (Cholly waited until last week to mention Bootsie's new name. And Bootsie, say friends, is miffed because Ghighi remarried before she did.) When she tried to syndicate the column, her boss, the late Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, said no. But now the lid was off: Washington newsmen expected Bootsie to be syndicated throughout the Hearst chain. And fellow gossip Danton...
While the first headlines blazed (and while Manhattan gossip columnists scrambled to assure their readers that they had known all about the romance for months), herds of reporters were dispatched to find an answer to the question: Who is Eva Sears? Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker (Ghighi Cassini) haughtily announced that she was Mrs. Barbara Paul Sears of the fine old Philadelphia Pauls and thus a society girl of impeccable pedigree. He was wrong. Mrs. Sears was Cinderella, at least by all city-desk specifications...
Married. Igor ("Ghighi") Loiewski-Cassini, 32, squealy Hearst chitchatterer ("Cholly Knickerbocker"); and Elizabeth Darrah Waters, 20, stately blonde ex-model; he for the second time (his first was Washington Times-Herald Chitchatterer Austine "Bootsie" McDonnell), she for the first; in Sea Cliff...
...round of cocktail parties (her drink: orange juice) and dinners. At these gatherings she caches her notebook in the ladies' room, makes frequent trips there to jot down the items she overhears. By 1 a.m. she is back in bed. Once a week she sees her husband, "Ghighi." They meet in New York because, says Bootsie, "He doesn't like Washington any more . . . he doesn't think the people dress well here...
...wrote obituaries and police news for a Washington paper, finally talked himself into a $25-a-week job writing "a spicy little column like I had once done back in Italy." One spicy little column in 1939 aroused three young members of the Warrenton, Va., horsy set, who abducted "Ghighi" Cassini from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered him on a lonely road. He took refuge in the Warrenton home of one Major Austin McDonnell. Next year, when he became a U.S. citizen, Cassini married the Major's daughter, "Bootsie...