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...mother, Nadia Maslia, told Israeli newsmen that she met Nuri's only son, Sabah, in the early '30s when her family of wealthy Jewish bankers in Baghdad often did business with the Pasha. Though Sabah, an Iraqi air force officer, was already married to an Egyptian heiress, he fell in love with Nadia and kept trysts with her in London and Lebanon. Finally he asked her to become, as Mohammedan custom allows, his second wife. They were married at Mosul in 1939, lived in Nuri's household in Baghdad, and fled with the rest of Nuri...
...audiences at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (where his son Herbert has been a longtime stage director): "Each year a new generation of Mammon families is educated for attendance at the Metropolitan, where the young lady learns to sit in a box with the cool expression of a rich heiress and look at the stage as if she were packed...
Married. Princess Sandra Vittoria Torlonia, 22, granddaughter of the late King Alfonso XIII of Spain (and, on her father's side, of the late Brooklyn-born hardware heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia), daughter of Don Alessandro Torlonia, Prince of Civitella-Cesi, one of Italy's wealthiest men; and Clemente Lequio, 33, widower, father of an eight-year-old child, son of a onetime Fascist Italian ambassador to Spain; in secret, in Rome. Often mentioned as a possible mate for Belgium's bachelor King Baudoin, Princess Sandra met Insurance Man Clemente five weeks ago, married him in defiance...
Married. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies, 71, Washington hostess, Post Toasties heiress worth nearly $100 million, who in 1937 went to Moscow as the wife of the late (TIME, May 19) Joseph E. Davies, then U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, where she lavishly displayed the graces of capitalism to admiring comrades; and suave, silver-haired Herbert A. May, 66, senior vice president of Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Air Brake Co., a lustrous host and lover of good clubs, who, according to friends, "spends money beautifully" and carries himself "as if he were posing for his own statue...
Divorced. By Lorraine Manville Baxter, 63, asbestos heiress, sister of Playboy Tommy Manville: Charles Baxter, 33, sometime TV actor; after three years of marriage; in Las Vegas, Nev. With only four divorces, Lorraine trails far behind brother Tommy (ten wives...