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...first won recognition in the 20's for his modern music which emphasized dissonances and jazz rhythms. Copland was the first American composer to win a Guggenheim fellowship. In 1945 he got a Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Springs" and last year an Academy Award for his score for "The Heiress...
Divorced. Margaret Hughes Wright, 44, heiress to the Hughes tank & boiler fortune of Warren, Ohio; by Philip L. Wright, 47, head of a small Cleveland steel plant; after 21 years of marriage two children; in Cleveland. Blaming the break-up on her drinking, the judge awarded Wright principal custody of the children and $100,000, something of a record in alimony to a husband...
...eager to get on with his new job. His only previous TV experience has been in an advisory capacity on the half-hour Billy Rose Show (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC), a frequently effective dramatic series directed by Broadway's talented Jed Harris (The Front Page, Our Town, The Heiress). As NBC consultant, Rose will make "suggestions" on policy, programming and showmanship. Best of all, he says, is "the idea of someone wanting to pay money just to talk...
Divorced. By Ruth ("Bazy") McCormick Miller, 29, favorite niece of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick, heiress apparent to his press properties and editor for the past year of the Washington Times-Herald: (Maxwell) Peter Miller Jr., 31, the Times-Herald's former treasurer; after nine years of marriage, two children; in Ottawa...
Married. Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, 34, heiress to a Du Pont chemicals fortune, divorced wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; and Benjamin S. Warren Jr., 38, Detroit lawyer; both for the second time; near Wilmington...