Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual show in the form of "Say The Word," a musical comedy. The plot centers about, the efforts of a public relations counsel to gain publicity for a wealthy young lady who returns to America after three years abroad. The theme concerns itself with the ubiquitous love triangle: the heiress in love with the publicity man, and the publicity man in love with his secretary...
...Munn & Harrison Williams are U. S. chiefs for the pet French war work of the Duchess of Windsor and Lady Mendl: Les Colis de Trianon Versailles (packages and knitting for French soldiers; workroom in John Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British civilians with money...
Birthday. Heiress Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, 16, onetime centre of a custody battle between Mother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, widow of Reginald Vanderbilt, and Aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney...
...first press conference as U. S. Minister to Canada, earnest young James Henry Roberts Cromwell earnestly urged Ottawa interviewers to "forget all this richest-girl-in-the-world stuff," to address him and his wife (Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke) as "just Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell" (see above...
Born. To Louise Carnegie Miller Thomson, 20, granddaughter and heiress-apparent of the late fabulous Andrew Carnegie; and James Frederick Gordon Thomson, 43, sporty Edinburgh lawyer: their first child, a daughter; on the Carnegie estate, Skibo Castle, Scotland. Once reminisced an old Skibo servant: "I'll not forget the way he [Carnegie] looked up at the castle with that queer smile o' his. 'Steel built yon hame,' the auld mon said, 'but it's love that'll keep it together when I'm called away...