Word: gizycka
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...deep-rooted Washington belief is that Mrs. Nicholas ("Princess Alice") Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, exercises a potent backstage influence on U. S. politics. When Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson (onetime Countess Gizycka) became editrix of William Randolph Hearst's Washington Herald last summer, she attracted notice with a signed front-page declaration to the effect that the only political assistance Mrs. Longworth could render Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois was posing for photographs. It appeared that the Countess was out to explode the "Princess" legend, for business or other reasons. Last week Editor Patterson...
...posted on the social lore of the capital, which she has already exoloited in signed articles and a novel (Glass Houses?TIME, March 15, 1926"). For years she has been one of Washington's up-&-doing hostesses. She acquired the title of countess through her marriage with Count Joseph Gizycka, Austrian-Pole, whom she met in St. Petersburg and Vienna and married in 1904. After their divorce in 1908 she appealed to the Tsar, won custody of their daughter Felicia. In 1925 she married Elmer Schlesinger, Manhattan lawyer. After his death she resumed her maiden name...
Died. Elmer Schlesinger, 48, of Manhattan, Jewish lawyer (Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy), longtime Chicagoan, onetime vice president and general counsel of the U. S. Shipping Board; of heart disease; while golfing in Aiken, S. C. Lawyer Schlesinger was the husband of onetime Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, Chicago Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's sister. He was a director of the Patterson publications (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Liberty Magazine). He was divorced from Halle Schaffner of Chicago, daughter of Founder Joseph Schaffner of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, tailors...
Married. Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, granddaughter of the late Joseph Medill, sister of Joseph M. Patterson, publisher of the Chicago Daily Tribune, and The News, Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, cousin of the late Medill McCormick, U. S. Senator from Illinois, to Elmer Schlesinger, Manhattan lawyer; in Manhattan. Each has been divorced...