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Wisely, Buncombe Bob, happy in his fifth marriage (this to Evalyn Washington McLean, 21, the daughter of heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean), chose not to stand for re-election this year...
Barbara Hutton, $40,000,000 five-&-dime heiress, had a book on mother care thrown at her by ex-husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who filed suit for custody of their nine-year-old son Lance. He charged her with neglecting to send Lance to school, allowing his teeth to decay, using "coarse and vulgar language" when he stayed with her and his stepfather, Cinemactor Gary Grant. The Count also charged that Lance had been encouraged to write coded notes to his mother, exhibited a decoded sample: "To hell with my father. I would like it if he died...
There is one more chore: dinner and the evening out. Jan Smuts tries to be home and in bed by 11. Sometimes he must stay longer. One recent night, when he dined at Buckingham Palace, he sat beside Princess Elizabeth, the Heiress Presumptive, had a chance to get better acquainted with a pillar of her Empire. Most menacing to Jan Smuts's sleep are Winston Churchill's dinners. Britain's Prime Minister likes to talk on & on, until 2 or 3 a.m., sipping the South African brandy which his good right hand, Jan Smuts, thoughtfully brought along...
Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, café-society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...
...free land financed the building of 79 railroads. The railroad barons mortgaged the land, sent agents abroad to lure swarms of emigrants to the west. Jay Cooke's Northern Pacific publicity agent blanketed Europe with brochures describing the Northwest as "a vast wilderness waiting like a rich heiress to be appropriated and enjoyed." Adventurous easterners, meantime, found occasional diversion on the long trip west by shooting buffalo...