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Princess Elizabeth, Britain's 19-year-old heiress presumptive, who recently gave an inkling of what goes on in her pretty young head by choosing Bing Crosby as her favorite crooner, waltzed with a chef in the Royal Servants' Hall of Buckingham Palace. In the same room Lillibet's royal father was taking a whirl with the butler's wife, and her mother with a footman. The occasion: the household staff's annual Christmas party, at which the members of the royal family customarily democratize, the staff admirably Crichton...
...Igor was born in Sevastopol, grew up (after the revolution) in Denmark, Switzerland, Italy. At 21 he came to the U.S. to coach tennis at the University of Georgia, went back to get his brother, Oleg, a nubile young man. Oleg's marriages, to date: with Million-heiress Merry Fahrney, Cinemactress Gene Tierney. Igor covered sports and read proof for an Italian paper in New York, wrote obituaries and police news for a Washington paper, finally talked himself into a $25-a-week job writing "a spicy little column like I had once done back in Italy." One spicy...
Divorced. Colonel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., 48, wealthy, dapper, ex-playboy, wartime U.S. envoy to eight exiled governments in London, now on General Eisenhower's staff; by his second wife, Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, 48, mining heiress (his first wife was Mary Duke, tobacco heiress); after 14 years of marriage, no surviving children; in Paris...
Chic and dainty as a Dresden doll, Heiress Babs tripped into Judge Thurmond Clarke's court. She had charged Actor Gary Grant, 41, with "mental cruelty." Grant did not appear, but his manager, Frank Vincent, was there. Barbara threw her arms about him. trilled "Hello, darling." Then she settled down to describing tall, dark & handsome Husband Grant's cruelty...
...years later the penitent lawmakers paid her back and for good measure hung her portrait (titled "savior of the Alamo") on a capitol wall. One of the legislators was Newspaperman Henry Hulme Sevier, founder of the Austin American. By the time he married the fiery-eyed, sabertongued heiress in 1906 she had written two novels, a musicomedy (Mexicana) which the Shuberts produced on Broadway. And she was already up to her pretty neck in politics, business, philanthropy...