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Thus with a cynic's lullaby closed the final chapter-just 24 years ago this month-of one of the most tempestuous custody battles ever fought. The baby was eleven-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt, solemn-faced, button-cute heiress to a $4,000,000 trust fund, headlined in that Depression year as the "Poor Little Rich Girl." Mother was Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, one of the most publicized Continental gadabouts of the day, who lost the fight for her daughter's custody-except for weekends (with Christmas and July tossed in)-to her sister-in-law, wealthy Art Patroness...
Crossing razor-edged affidavits in a Manhattan court. Heiress Gloria ("Poor Little Rich Girl") Vanderbilt Stokowski Lumet, 35, joined battle with her ex-husband, white-maned Leopold Stokowski, over custody arrangements for their two sons, Stan. 9, and Christopher, 7. Insisting that Stokowski is really 85 (72, he claims) and "seeks to be restored to the tyrannical and despotic power he asserted over me when we were married," Gloria, herself a onetime child-custody pawn, disclosed that she once warned Stokie in a letter: "I do not want my boys exposed to your paranoid attitudes." In rejoinder, the maestro tartly...
Chris also seemed a bit odd, at first sight, to Standard Oil Heiress Mary Caroline Pratt when she met him on a blind date. "He was a great, gangling thing with a cap and plus fours," she recalls. "All I could do was stand and giggle." Four years later they were married...
Private Lives. But the Bahamas are a personal haven for the rich as well as a corporate haven for foreign companies. Clint Murchison Jr. soaks up the sun on a private island hideaway at Spanish Cay (rhymes with fee). Standard Oil Heiress Marion Carstairs and her half brother Francis Francis bought adjoining Whale Cay and Bird Cay. Longtime Alcoa Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis built expensive Rock Sound Club, a public hotel, on Eleuthera. While he was at it, Davis put up the truly private Cotton Bay Golf Club (among the members: Laurance Rockefeller, General Nathan Twining), complete with Robert...
...Many Books? As of this week, the boys were mum about their financial backing, but one known angel is Investor Richard Ernst, a former Knopf employee (in the sales department) who is married to Department Store Heiress Susan Bloomingdale. As for father Knopf, 66, he had no comment on his son's exodus. A publisher who has often complained that the trade is turning out far too many books, Knopf Sr. only said: "There have always been new firms, and I guess this will be a good one," As for Pat, 41, he seemed...