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Died. Aimee Crocker, 78, multi-spoused heiress to the Crocker gold and railroad fortunes, pre-earthquake belle of San Francisco; in Manhattan. Her first husband reputedly won her in a poker game. Of the next four two were Russian princes. In 1936 she wrote an autobiography (And I'd Do It Again). Concluded she: "Husbands have little to do with people...
Anglo-American. As a symbol of Anglo-American unity Winston Churchill is a paradox because his Americanism is more British than American-more British, even, than average-British. This seven-month child of a British peer and an American heiress went back to Elizabethan times to find his spiritual forebears; he grew to maturity with a stomach for strong food and drink, with a lust for adventure, with a tongue and pen that shaped the English language into the virile patterns of a Donne, a Marlowe or a Shakespeare. His father he worshiped, but never got close to; his mother...
...there are the legends clustering about the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prize pig. As in all major epics, there are minor themes, characters and inspirations-the ups & downs of the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's useless boy, who finally gets himself an American heiress and a job in her father's dog-biscuit business ("I can't think what they would use him for," mused Lord Emsworth, "unless as a taster"); or the love-and-golf short stories of that Ancient Mariner of the links, the Club Bore...
Divorced. Angel Elizalde, millionaire Manila polo player and sugar magnate, by Marie Spreckels Elizalde, California sugar heiress; in Reno, after she testified her husband of 16 years was "morose...
...Sears, Roebuck Heiress Mrs. Marion Rosenwald Stern (represented on PM's board by her man-of-business Nathan Levin who runs the 70-odd Rosenwald family money pools), buyer of PM's No. 1 block of stock, representing a $250,000 investment...