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...millionheiress and granddaughter of F.D.R., will become the June bride of a Manhattan barber's son. A Bryn Mawr junior, the bride-to-be is the daughter of Jimmie Roosevelt and the former Betsey Gushing, who divorced Roosevelt in 1940 and is now the wife of Financier John Hay ("Jock&") Whitney. The engagement announcement broke the news that Whitney, with the consent of Jimmie Roosevelt, had legally adopted Sara in 1949 to put her in line for the family fortune (reportedly around $50 million). The groom-to-be is Concert Pianist Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, whom Sara...
...coach of the Crimson nine, has lots of superstitions and is proud of it. The squad has already learned not to leave any crossed bats around, at least where Stuffy can see them. The coach also makes a practice of tipping his hat to a truck loaded with either hay or barrels...
Three years ago her voice won her a $3,000 John Hay Whitney fellowship, and she went for advanced study in Paris. Then came a first prize in Geneva's 1951 International Music Competition (other noted winners: the Metropolitan's Nell Rankin and Victoria de los Angeles). Finally, in Holland, she sang the lead in Stravinsky's Nightingale, and the British magazine Opera flatly called her "the outstanding coloratura of her generation...
...pretty blonde who, at 26, has succeeded in Hollywood. In her ten years on the lot, she has danced and smiled her way up from a $75-a-week job to a $3,500-a-week contract with 20th Century-Fox (for such pictures as Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and Oh, You Beautiful Doll). In spite of cinema's glamour treatment, she is also an unassuming and likable woman-as one agent put it, "one of the few actresses in town an agent would say nice things about...
...model community on its 9,000-acre "farm." Left to the university by Railroad Tycoon Leland Stanford, the farm includes some of the richest land in northern California. But the terms of the university charter forbid its sale. For the past 50 years almost its only product has been hay. Now university authorities will let individuals rent the land on 99-year leases. They hope to see schools, homes, shopping centers and light industry take over most of the farm. Even with 3,000 acres set aside for its campus and adjoining golf course, Stanford expects to raise $40 million...