Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rough, being stuck with $50 million worth of tea leaves. "The day I live for," says Huntington Hartford, 53, the A. & P. heir, "is the day somebody mentions my name and doesn't immediately add A. & P. heir." One plot he brewed to this end was to buy 700 acres of a Bahama isle named Paradise for $14 million and turn it into a play ground hardly anyone could afford. He built a 52-room hotel (rates: up to $135 a day), nightclub, golf course (pro: Gary Player), and tennis courts (pro: Pancho Gonzales), but, says his broker...
...oaths for union leaders under the Taft-Hartley Act, Black tartly informed his colleagues that "the First Amendment forbids compromise." When the Court upheld the 1951 conviction of Communist leaders for teaching and advocating violent overthrow of the Government-thereby upholding the Smith Act, heir to World War I's Sedition Act-Black protested that the decision "waters down the First Amendment so that it amounts to little more than an admonition to Congress." He was trying to save principles, not Communists...
Married. Princess Isabelle, 32, eldest daughter of French Pretender Comte de Paris; and Count Friedrich Carl Schön-born-Buchheim, 26, heir to 12,000 acres of Austrian forest; in a civil ceremony, followed the next day by a nuptial Mass in the royal chapel of Dreux, France...
...American record for 1⅛miles on the turf in a warm-up race at Saratoga.) Gun Bow had also changed owners again. Keeping a 40% interest for themselves, Albert and Mrs. Stanley sold the other 60% for $600,000 to a syndicate headed by John R. Gaines, heir to a dog-food fortune. Another syndicate member: Mrs. Elizabeth Arden Graham, who happily shelled out $100,000 for 10% of the same colt she sold nine months...
Married. Grayce Breene Kerr, 63, widow and a principal heir of Oklahoma's wealthy Democratic Senator (worth approximately $35 million at his death in 1963); and Olney Flynn, 69, onetime mayor of Tulsa, another wealthy oilman; both for the second time; in Minneapolis...