Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kitty & the Dollar Princess. For years, Vienna's Typical American was a rich heiress who traveled about the Continent buying up lesser kingdoms. Trilled the Dollar Princess Waltz, in Vienna's golden...
Barbara Hutton, 34, was having some more despite her famed swearing-off statement of last April. ("You can't go on being a fool forever," she said then.) The synthetically svelte, fashionably deadpanned heiress married her fourth in a snowy Swiss town. At the start it was rather picturesque and dashing. (She added an extra dash of the picturesque by screwing up the famed deadpan for photographers.) The groom was a Lithuanian prince* -handsome Igor Troubetzkoy. Trotting about like a jolly uncle who knows how to handle these things was International Playboy Freddie McEvoy, who a lot of people...
...Heiress Hutton had developed the snuffles. Presently a doctor was summoned. The bride took to bed with a cold, and Igor got an offer from Hollywood...
Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Mutton (first husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani; second, Count Court Haugwitz-Revent-low; third, Cinemactor Gary Grant) was back at the marriage-license bureau with another prince. Sharing the Swiss vistas with her in St. Moritz: tall, blond Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, leading candidate...
...other parties were just as imposing. Hostess of the first was diamond-studded Mrs. Perle Mesta, an Oklahoma heiress who zealously seines big names from Washington's social sea. The sturgeon which Mrs. Mesta had imported from Russia had every reason for congratulating itself upon the climax of its career. As it lay flanked by Mrs. Mesta's superior foods, it could eye Presidential Aide Clark Clifford, assorted Senators, Opera Singer Dorothy Kirsten, a countess, Netherlands Ambassador Alexander Loudon and Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Mrs. Mesta even served her 172 guests domestic champagne -a colossal gesture of poise...