Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Evening of Folk Music, featuring your old favorites Joanne Bronfman (Seagram's heiress?) and Neal Macmillan will be presented at Myron's Coffee House in Maynard on January 21 at 8:30 pm. If you leave Marshfield right after the Sour Mash Boys finish their first set, you'll make it to Maynard just in time...
...Astors had received other bids for the Observer-from Fleet Street, four Arab countries and even a Hong Kong patent-medicine heiress. Until last week the leading suitor was Publisher Rupert Murdoch, the Australian whose three-continent newspaper empire includes London's Sun and News of the World and who two weeks ago agreed to buy the New York Post. But the Astors were troubled that many of Murdoch's 87 newspapers are distinguished chiefly by their attention to sex and scandal, and Murdoch would not guarantee editorial independence to Observer editors...
China watchers believe the stories of Chiang Ch'ing's sybaritic way of life are plausible. But no independent confirmation exists of the capital crimes she is said to have committed. Still, her claim to be Mao's ideological heiress, combined with her backing of the Shanghai radicals' bid for power, was amply sufficient to bring about her downfall. She had to be discredited before Hua could put forward his own claim. Indeed, Hua's legitimacy as party leader rests in large part on official stories that Mao had given him a deathbed benediction...
...matches during his 23-year career; his five-set loss to American Don Budge in 1937 still ranks as one of the greatest matches in tennis history. Von Cramm retired from competitive tennis in the mid-'50s, when he became an exporter in Hamburg. He married Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Hutton in 1955; they were divorced...
When Greek Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis married Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis 14 months ago, everyone was surprised at the couple's one-month courtship. The lightning-fast merger has now fallen apart, and last week relatives of both Christina, 25, and Alexander, 31, revealed that the pair had agreed to a divorce. Not all Christina watchers were surprised. After a motorcycle spill had hospitalized Andreadis with a broken leg last August, his wife came by to autograph the cast. Her inscription: "Bon voyage, Alexandras, better luck next time...