Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Gloria Vanderbilt, 39, spotlighted heiress: and Wyatt Emory Cooper, 39, Hollywood scriptwriter (The Chapman Report); she for the fourth time (the others, in order: Actor's Agent Pat di Cicco, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Director Sidney Lumet), he for the first; in a civil ceremony, in Arlington...
...Blood is thicker than politics," lifelong Republican Elmo Mennen Williams once said by way of explaining her unwavering support of her Democratic son, former Michigan Governor and current Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams. And when the will of the Mennen toiletries heiress was probated after her death at 80 of a heart attack, it turned out that blood was thicker than charity, too. Noting that she had made frequent charitable contributions in her lifetime, she left the bulk of her $1,000,000 estate to her three sons and nine grandchildren. All real...
Marriage Revealed. Joan Irvine Swinden Penniman Burt, 30, leggy great-granddaughter of Real Estate Man James Irvine and principal (21%) heiress to the 88,000-acre $500 million Irvine Ranch south of Los Angeles, site of the world's largest private civic development project now under way, designed by Architect William Pereira; and Morton Wistar ("Cappy") Smith, 47, Virginia country squire and champion show-horse trainer; she for the fourth time, he for the second; on Sept...
...Gardner not only arranged every object in every room; each arrangement expresses her personality. A not-so-conservative New York heiress, she married into one of Boston's most conservative families in 1880. Gossip about her eccentric habits soon developed--in part, one suspects, because the more proper Boson matrons envied her beauty and growing group of admirers. Of course, Mrs. Gardner willingly provided eccentricities for gossip--for example after missing the train to a party, Mrs. Gardner hired a locomotive, climbed into its cabin with the engineer, and shocked the party by arriving in this high style...
...argued by Stanley Baldwin, he was warned by the visiting Prime Minister that "intellectualism is a sin and could lead a young man to a fate worse than death." Notwithstanding Baldwin, Rab became a Cambridge don. He deserted the common room for Commons after marrying Sydney Courtauld, a textile heiress, whose long illness and death in 1954 visibly sapped his political energies...