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...paintings yet to come from the Kress Foundation, legislators later turned over a four-story building to house the collection, authorized another $341,000 for renovations. The museum hopes to keep growing with private donations, has already received such gifts as three 16th century tapestries from Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, two British portraits by Raeburn and Hoppner from John Hay Whitney and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...
Died. Ann Cooper Hewitt Nicholson, 41, famed in the 1936 tabloids as the "sterilized heiress" after she charged that her mother and two San Francisco doctors had her sterilized without her knowledge to prevent her from bearing an heir to the family fortune (her great-grandfather: Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper, builder in 1830 of the first U.S. steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb); reportedly of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Monterrey, Mexico. Ann Cooper's sensational charges collapsed after the two doctors were acquitted and her mother died. Married six times, she never bore a child...
...heiress who has married a title (Michael Rennie), Lana is described by her husband as "greedy, selfish, decadent, corrupt"-by which he means that she has a roving eye. As the story begins, Lana goes flouncing off to India to pick up a stallion from a maharani's stable. Enter Dr. Safti (Richard Burton), an untouchable who has been educated in England, and pretty soon the twain are meeting under every deodar that could stand the trip to California. Maybe it's yoga and maybe not, but Lana suddenly realizes what she has been needing all her life...
After a prosaic civil ceremony in the city hall of Versailles, pale, black-browed Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa, 43 this week, ex-countess, twice an ex-princess, motored back to her rose-festooned Ritz Hotel suite in Paris with her sixth groom. Having demoted herself to a baroness, Barbara beamed nonetheless at her attentive husband, once Nazi Germany's top tennis ace, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46. He had met Barbara about 18 years before in Cairo. Amidst toasts at the Ritz, the baron recalled: "We liked each other very much...
...been brought from an apartment in a slum area. Wondered Brunt: What was an heiress doing there...