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...Nancy Oakes, Countess de Marigny is a dignified married woman, a fabulous heiress and a student at outdoorsy Bennington College. Her husband is in jail, held on suspicion of the murder of her father. Somebody killed Sir Harry Oakes at Westbourne outside Nassau during a tropical thunderstorm on the night of July 7. Nancy is sure it was not her husband, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny. "Freddy could not have done this terrible thing," she has explained over & over. "I know he did not do it. ... I am the only person who can help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Faith and Circumstance | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...drowning in her swimming pool; near Phoenix, Ariz. A granddaughter of Financier Jay Gould, daughter of Famed Stage Beauty Edith Kingdon Gould, she gave a dance recital at Carnegie Hall when she was 16. She married her first husband at 17, as a playfully ambitious young heiress. Served as a professional greeter at a Broadway movie house and otherwise attracted attention with interviews on marriage, motherhood and careers for women. She deserted society in 1930 after her second marriage, to Contractor Walter McFarlane Barker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...later on" from James H. R. (short-time Minister to Canada), who has rarely seen her in recent years. Three saddle horses, a shepherd dog and an automobile went along in a boxcar de luxe. Because Nevada levies no inheritance taxes, and few others that would affect her, the heiress planned to settle there. Still in the courts in New Jersey is a tax suit against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Born. To U.S. Army Lieut. Jean Bekessy (Author "Hans Habe" of A Thousand Shall Fall), 32, and Eleanor Close Sturges Gautier Rand Bekessy, 32, Post Toasties heiress, daughter of Mrs. Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies: a son, Antal Miklos; in Manhattan. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Married. Efrem Zimbalist, 54, Russian-born violinist; and Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 66, widow of famed Editor Edward William Bok, daughter and heiress of the late Philadelphia Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis ; in Rockport, Me. Director since 1941 of the Curtis Institute of Music, which she established, Zimbalist was the second husband of the late Soprano Alma Gluck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 19, 1943 | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

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