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...Bernard Finch, wealthy and socially prominent physician (with a big swimming pool), and Carole Tregoff, his pretty paramour, were in the midst of a trial for their lives, accused of murdering the doctor's wife in cold blood. On the other side of the world the missing heiress to a typewriter fortune, Debutante Gamble Benedict, turned up in Paris with her Rumanian lover, a married man (see PEOPLE...
...When Heiress Gamble Benedict, 19 last week, was a little girl, her mother committed suicide. Gamble's father, Vermont Psychiatrist J. Douglas Sharpe, later lost custody of Gamble and her brother Douglas, who then fell under the stern care of their maternal grandmother, Manhattan Dowager Katharine Geddes ("Grammy") Benedict, now 75. Did Gamble feel that Grammy gave her more lectures than love? So it seemed last week, which found Gamble in Paris with Rumanian-born Andrei Porumbeanu, 34, a U.S. Air Force veteran, who had met Gamble at a Manhattan party. The two had eloped, right after Gamble...
Died. Margaret Mary Emerson, 75, Bromo-Seltzer heiress who kept high society agog with her array of rich husbands: 1) Smith Hollins McKim, a physician; 2) Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who went down with the Lusitania; 3) Raymond T. Baker, a Nevada prison warden who became director of the Mint; 4) Charles Minot Amory, a playboy; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Exactly half a century ago, the New York Journal set out to protect the non-working girl, or U.S. heiress, from titled European fortune hunters. The newspaper printed a kind of form sheet of the international marital sweepstakes under the headings: American Heiress, Her Fortune. Man She Married. How He Treated Her. Samples...
...over the city is a grey suspicion of dawn, the hour when streetwalkers quit, grifters count their take, and busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill. He is hard-muscled, handsome, handy with a snub-nosed...