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...Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy, and the son retaliated by contributing to the funds of striking workers at his father's plant...
...public notice column of the New York Herald Tribune appeared three lines: "I am no longer responsible for any debts incurred by my wife. . . ." It was signed by Franklin Laws Hutton, father of Woolworth Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, concerned his second wife, Irene Curley Bodde Hutton. Meanwhile, back to the U. S. for a home-made divorce came Daughter Barbara and her son Lance, whose ship companions included legally separated Husband Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and Barbara's rumored choice for a third husband, Robert Sweeny, amateur golfer & investment broker. On the dock Countess Barbara was greeted...
...Drexel Biddle Jr., Mrs. Biddle and her daughter by a previous marriage, Miss Peggy Schulze. In Paris, with U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt acting as best man, the 21-year-old Prince married 18-year-old Peggy, whose mother is an $85,000,000 copper heiress...
Died. Colonel Charles Glenn Collins. 59, Scottish soldier of fortune; in Vicksburg, Miss. His career included action in South Africa with the British Army, marriage with one U. S. heiress and three foiled elopements with another (the fourth succeeded), World War decoration by England, France and Canada, extradition in 1923 to India to stand trial for an $18,000 jewelry fraud (later acquitted), eventual domestication with a third wife in Mississippi...
Married. Jefferson Davis Dickson, 43, Natchez, Miss, farm boy who became Europe's No. 1 sports promoter, built, owns and operates the Palais des Sports in Paris; and Louise Wedell Mastbaum, 29, Philadelphia heiress; in Greenwich, Conn. For years Dickson was a devoted swain of Skater Sonja Henie...