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...Post & Times-Star focused its attention on Probate Court Judge Chase M. Davies. It turned out that during his 19 years on the bench, he had made a practice of appointing relatives and close friends as appraisers. Out of a $37,575,282 estate left by a Procter & Gamble heiress, two of Judge Davies' friends had each received a $37,575 fee. Upset by the publicity, the probate judge paid two frantic calls on Editor Thornburg to try to persuade him that he was a man of probity. Said Thornburg in an editorial: "The best...
Meanwhile, Rockefeller was conducting a long-distance courtship of Jeannette Edris, a hotel and theater heiress originally from Seattle, whom he had met in New York in 1951 after his separation from Bobo and Jeannette's from her third husband. The only thing Jeannette seemed to have in common with Bobo was blonde hair. She is tall, matronly and dignified behind thick glasses. It was a quiet romance, and they were married in a sedate ceremony in 1956 at Hayden Lake, Idaho...
Died. Edward Tirella, 42, interior decorator and sometime actor (he designed the set for The Sandpiper, had a small role in the film), longtime friend and frequent house guest of Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke; of multiple fractures and internal injuries suffered on the Duke estate; in Newport, R.I. Leav ing the estate in a car driven by Miss Duke, Tirella got out to open the iron gates, was crushed to death when the car suddenly shot forward...
...Warschaw, a Harvey Aluminum heiress, has been muttering under her breath about Brown's treachery ever since her narrow defeat, and has withheld her considerable resources from the campaign...
Rutherfurd himself had an intriguing romance as a youth. In 1895 he had been secretly engaged to Railroad Heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, whose marriage to the Duke of Marlborough was annulled years later by the Sacred Rota of the Roman Catholic Church on the ground that she had loved Rutherfurd but had been forced to marry Marlborough by her domineering mother...