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...make friends easily. At first she thought she might like to go into journalism, and she got herself a summer job working in the morgue at the Denver Post. There she met a guy named Joe--Joseph Patterson Albright, grandson of the founder of the New York Daily News, heir apparent to his aunt Alicia Patterson's Newsday...
...Nelson-Grimmelmann Act started strong, hunkering down to the podium and gazing out at his listeners with conviction, but lost some connection with the audience as the night wore on. Rawlins, whose play-it-safe attitude and serious demeanor reflected the attitude of someone who's practically in heir apparent, appeared a little too packaged at times but nevertheless enumerated her accomplishments clearly...
...Arizona Senator Carl Hayden, who served 41 years, 10 months and 11 days before he left Congress in 1969. With Thurmond's victory over challenger Elliott Close, it looks as if the 93-year-old chairman of the Armed Services Committee will make it. Close, 43, a textile heir and real estate developer with a virtually invisible profile and a nonexistent political record, had barely a chance against South Carolina's reigning Republican. Even the challenger's last-minute barrage of TV ads attempting to question Thurmond's competence by showing the stooped and unsteady Senator being assisted down...
...will all this go at Givenchy? There will be some sort of culture clash but, McQueen promises, "no bumsters." He believes the refinement of his tailoring makes him a worthy heir to Hubert de Givenchy: "The line of the body and the tailoring make it closer to what he was about, with his training with Balenciaga." As for the cost of couture, McQueen calls it just a fact of life. "If it requires 83 hours for a person to sit there beading a dress," he says, "that's it. Take it or leave...
Following a nasty marriage to Winston Churchill's dissolute son Randolph, Pam Churchill went on to form lucrative unions and strategic dalliances on both sides of the Atlantic. Her second husband was Broadway producer Leland Hayward, who died in 1971. She then married the aged Averell Harriman--Wall Street heir, Roosevelt New Dealer, diplomat and former Governor of New York. He had been her munificent lover in Britain during World War II. Other beaux of that exciting time and place included John Hay Whitney, Edward R. Murrow and his boss, CBS founder William Paley, who later crowned the red-haired...