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Married. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 37; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, 33; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Handsome, enthusiastic Jock Whitney, heir to a $27,000,000 trust fund, has been an art patron, six-goal polo player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported...
Divorced. By Orator Francis Woodward, 56, multimillionaire gelatin heir (Jell-O): Mary Trask Woodward, his second wife; in Reno. Reported to have settled $1,000,000 on his first wife, Persis Davis Woodward, he was ordered last June to pay Wife No. 2 $42,000 a year separate maintenance...
Virtually all Morgan stockholders were identified with the company, were ex-Morgan partners or their families until this sale. The absence of a market for the stock was doubtless a hardship to more than one upper-bracket heir...
Divorced. Tommy Manville, 47-year-old asbestos heir; by his fifth wife, Bonita Francine Edwards, 22; in Reno...
Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping, tin-plate heir and ensign in the Naval air service, bought himself $1,000 worth of custom-tailored uniforms, eight pairs of $50 shoes...