Word: heir
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...organization man who really swings was what Warner Brothers wanted. So, for an undisclosed sum, they hired none other than Frank Sinatra, 47, as a new special assistant to help 71-year-old President Jack L. Warner on matters of high policy. Whether Sinatra might be heir apparent to Warner's movie-making empire was anybody's guess, but Hollywood insiders can readily identify the secret ingredient that qualifies Frankie to join the ranks of rising executives...
Apres de Gaulle, qui? goes France's favorite guessing game. Who indeed? Though le grand Charles has often hinted that he would like to retire when his term expires in 1965, he has carefully avoided designating his heir. Last week De Gaulle finally ended the suspense. At Orange, his first stop on a five-day stump tour of the eastern Rhone valley, he declared oracularly: "The essential thing for Charles de Gaulle, President of the Republic, is to know what the French people want. I have the impression that I have discerned this for a quarter of a century...
After a four-month, $4,000,000 sojourn in Vienna for treatment of a duodenal ulcer, Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 61, returned to his desert capital of Riyadh last week. At the airport he received full honors and an embrace from his half-brother and heir, Crown Prince Feisal. But it was hardly a triumphal homecoming, for Saud is now no more than a figurehead ruler...
...still married to Reventlow. "I adore him," she says. They live separately, date others, and sometimes join up for happy weekends sailing their catamaran. As Mrs. Reventlow, she is heir-in-law to the F. W. Woolworth millions, and has no shortage of charge accounts to fuel her fabled whims. Getting interested in tropical fish, she once filled her house with vast aquariums. She has dived to a depth of 100 feet in an Aqualung. At Santa Monica's Ocean Park, she jumps in with the porpoises and lets them nibble little fish from her fingers...
Died. Gail Whitney Stur, 24, daughter of Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney, 1956 deb-of-the-year, who splashed into headlines at 18 with a surprise engagement to 34-year-old Oil Heir Richard Cowell, cancelled it when Daddy objected only to elope with Cowell, divorced him at 20, and finally settled down at Sun Valley Lodge in Idaho as the wife of the assistant manager; of leukemia; in Manhattan...