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...child's mother, beauteous, 26-year-old Countess Jane de Tristan (heiress as Jane Christenson to West Coast shipping and lumber fortunes), waited for the second letter. None came. Police kept hands off, to allow Louis S. Gates, the Countess' stepfather and president of Phelps-Dodge Corp., to get in touch with the kidnapper. But 24 hours went by and nothing happened. The hours were black and long for the de Tristans...
...Angeles, Five-&-Ten Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, as the wife of a Danish nobleman, renounced her U. S. citizenship, possibly to escape $21,000,000 in inheritance taxes, submitted to registration and fingerprinting as an alien...
...ringside of the Sales Paddock. Before he was called back to Long Island by his father's fatal illness last fortnight, young Chrysler had added 13 more yearlings to his stable. The $53,000 he paid for them was second only to the amount spent by Chocolate Heiress Ethel Mars (Milky Way Farm), leading yearling buyer at Saratoga for the last six years...
Married. Francis X. Shields, 29, Manhattan laundryman, onetime No. 1 U. S. tennist; and Donna Marina Torlonia, younger daughter of U. S. Hardware Heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia and sister of the Prince of Civitella Cesi, who is married to the Infanta Beatrix, daughter of Alfonso XIII; in North Conway, N. H. Fortnight before, Shields was divorced by Socialite Rebecca Tenney Shields...
Died. The newborn daughter of Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell, 27; and James H. R. Cromwell, 44, former U. S. Minister to Canada; 24 hours after its birth; in Honolulu...