Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening their Sunday Dispatch last week, Londoners saw pictures of Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell, and Mrs. Mavis Constance Tate, M. P., who cried out in the headline: "WHAT I WOULD HAVE SAID IF M. P.s HAD NOT SHOUTED ME DOWN...
...nouveau-riche success with International Broadcasting Co. boasted, "I often compare myself to Clive of India-he created a great thing, so have I with my commercial broadcasting!"; and John Roland Robinson, who is chairman of a British Guiana gold-mining company and husband of Maysie Casque, an heiress with Woolworth connections...
Spanish Prince Ludovico Pignatelli filed an application in Manhattan Supreme Court asking that Italian Prince Guido Pignatelli and his precariously married* wife, Henrietta Hartford, $200,000,000 A. & P. store heiress, be ordered to drop the titles from their names. Complained Ludovico: "Guido has assumed the designation [Prince Pignatelli] so he might pirate the reputation and prominence of the petitioner. ... By reason thereof he . . . found the doors of New York's best society, which ordinarily would have been barred to him, suddenly open...
...Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, Woolworth heiress, who had already given $10,000 to the Red Cross, gave $100,000 more. Local 151 of the Window Trimmers and Helpers Union of New York City gave...
...than fourth as a two-year-old and had lost more races than he had won at Santa Anita last winter. Only four days before, in a mile race over the same track and with the same jockeys, Bimelech had beaten Gallahadion by almost three lengths. His owner, Chocolate Heiress Ethel Mars, decided not to go from Chicago to Louisville for the Derby, although her trainer, Roy Waldron, had phoned her that Big Bim's jockey had had to take to the whip to beat Gallahadion earlier in the week-and a horse race is a horse race...