Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wisely, Buncombe Bob, happy in his fifth marriage (this to Evalyn Washington McLean, 21, the daughter of heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean), chose not to stand for re-election this year...
There is one more chore: dinner and the evening out. Jan Smuts tries to be home and in bed by 11. Sometimes he must stay longer. One recent night, when he dined at Buckingham Palace, he sat beside Princess Elizabeth, the Heiress Presumptive, had a chance to get better acquainted with a pillar of her Empire. Most menacing to Jan Smuts's sleep are Winston Churchill's dinners. Britain's Prime Minister likes to talk on & on, until 2 or 3 a.m., sipping the South African brandy which his good right hand, Jan Smuts, thoughtfully brought along...
Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, café-society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...
...free land financed the building of 79 railroads. The railroad barons mortgaged the land, sent agents abroad to lure swarms of emigrants to the west. Jay Cooke's Northern Pacific publicity agent blanketed Europe with brochures describing the Northwest as "a vast wilderness waiting like a rich heiress to be appropriated and enjoyed." Adventurous easterners, meantime, found occasional diversion on the long trip west by shooting buffalo...
This week blue-eyed, brown-haired Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor comes of age. Briton No. SWGC 55-1 to the national registration office. "Betts" to her family, Princess Elizabeth to the world, on her 18th birthday she becomes Heiress Presumptive to the British throne. Should anything happen to her serious, doting father, King George VI, this mannequin-tall (5 ft. 6½ in.), pretty but not yet handsome girl will become Queen. Her great-great-grandmother, Victoria, reached that estate when she was 27 days past...