Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...native country before entering the U.S. eight years ago. After playing in Florida and Texas, he became one of five Argentines on the 39-member Warrenton-area polo team. The dashing "Argies" routinely attract adoring female groupies, and the relationship between the sexy polo pro and the shy heiress was nothing unusual. Villegas and Cummings met two years ago at the Willow Run Polo school, a magnet for the Argentine players, many of whom are boarded on farms owned by the people they call their patrones. Cummings was learning the game. Villegas was a handsome professional who inspired the students...
...silly promises no one expects to be held to: to marry if nothing better turns up before they reach the age of desperation, which, in their youthful innocence, they imagine to be 28. Now that the year is upon them, he suddenly announces he is getting married--to an heiress, no less--and she decides to put a stop to that nonsense...
DIED. BERNARD LAFFERTY, 51, the reportedly hard-drinking and spendthrift butler who won the trust of tobacco heiress Doris Duke; of yet-to-be-determined causes; in Los Angeles. After prosecutors cleared him of allegations that he had conspired to hasten Duke's death, he resigned his lucrative position as co-executor of her $1.2 billion estate and settled for $4.5 million plus $500,000 a year...
...fire hose," said Brownback, 39, after discovering that Congress had its own beautician. The lawyer and former farm broadcaster has taken a scouring approach to politics, both in the House as a freshman and in Kansas, where he scored a primary win over moderate Sheila Frahm, the anointed heiress to Bob Dole's seat. As for November, well, Kansas hasn't had a Democratic Senator since...
...always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness. As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond a doubt that she is modern Hollywood's one true heiress to the screwball tradition. They make Tin Cup rattle very merrily...