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...last out. The night before Elliott and Anna Dall drove in from Chicago. That afternoon he and Miss Googins, refreshed by a swim, were married by a retired Congregationalist minister (the Roosevelts are Episcopalians), on the Swiler lawn overlooking the Mississippi. The bride wore white georgette crepe. The groom, who also received a ring, wore flannel trousers, camel's hair coat. Five hundred neighbors gaped through the shrubbery, but only the bride's family and Mrs. Dall attended the ceremony. Police arrested a Chicago cameraman, broke his plates when he tried to photograph the wedding...
...beginning (1928) Drug Inc. was a simple two-way union between a curiously assorted couple that had one thing in common: each earned about $6,000,000 a year. The groom was Louis Kroh Liggett's United Drug Co. The business of United Drug was and is to manufacture drugs and other drug store items for sale exclusively by its own retailers, in chief 10,000-odd Rexall Drug Stores. While United Drug's original business was manufacturing not retailing, some of its Rexall dealers had from time to time decided to retire from business and Mr. Liggett...
...distributed by Sterling-they were for sale exclusively by Rexall stores. Therefore the two spouses could beget no common offspring. Yet they at once proceeded to adopt children. The adoptions were made in the joint name of Drug Inc.. but were really of two kinds: 1) The groom's adoptions consisting of several drug store chains: B. & R. Drug Stores (1928), May Drug Stores (1929), Wolff Wilson Drug Co. (1929), Owl Drug...
...faces, nearly ruined the bride's dress (Patou) and had a grand time. There are no seats in a Russian church. For over half an hour, while four bearded brocaded priests chanted at them, led them round & round the altar and sprinkled them with holy water, bride & groom stood, holding lighted candles. The bride swayed dangerously once or twice but did not collapse. Among the nine ushers who took turns holding gilt crowns over the heads of the couple were Prince Theodore of Russia, Serge Lifar, a dancer at the Paris opera, and three other Woolworth heirs, cousins...
...size of the groom's settlement set the world wondering at the size of the bride's fortune. When the late Frank Winfield (5? & 10^?) Woolworth died in 1919, he owned approximately one quarter of the stock of this giant company. He left his entire estate to his wife, Jennie. Since the latter, aged 66, suffered from premature senility, the estate was administered by a committee consisting of their two daughters: Helena (Mrs. Charles McCann), and Jessie (Mrs. James Paul Donahue), and Hubert Parson, president of the company (1919-32). When Jennie Woolworth died in 1924 the estate...