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Only three months ago, Patty Hearst was a quiet,, comely heiress to a famed publishing fortune who spent much of her time preparing for her intended marriage to Steven Andrew Weed, 26, a graduate philosophy student. Kidnaped on Feb. 4 by the obscure revolutionary band that grandiosely calls itself an army but is more of a ragtag platoon, she seemed close to release two weeks ago, after her family started a free-food program for the Bay Area's needy and aged that the S.L.A. had demanded. Then she stunned her family and friends by announcing that...
...sour ending to an otherwise happy holiday. For three weeks Christina Onassis, 32, had frolicked on the beaches of Skorpios, made side trips to other Greek islands and nibbled-well, all right, feasted-on the local cuisine. But when the heiress boarded her personal Learjet to fly home to Nice, France, from Aktion military airport last week, an official took her passport and forbade her to leave the country. Reason: a pending court case in which the Greek government claims that Christina owes $33 million worth of inheritance taxes on her father's property. That was when Christina began...
...case that had everything: European aristocracy and American money, a Newport palace and a fiercely loyal servant, a philandering stepfather and vengeful children, a blond heiress wife and a brunette TV-star mistress...
Last fall Heiress Clarita Crosby, who had visited the campus once in 1978, left Sewanee $5 million. And in the past two decades the school has received gifts ranging from $1,000 to $113,000 from people with no obvious connection. Williams, in fact, may have had the strongest tie: his grandfather, the Rev. Walter E. Dakin, graduated from the divinity school in 1895. The original Williams will, dated September 1980, created a Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund for creative writers and left the Williams papers to Sewanee. A codicil, dated December 1982, gives the papers to Harvard and puts...
...MOST STRIKING relationship and the one which forms the core of the novel is the one between Julien, a card player and roguish art dealer who hopes to sell a forged painting on the cruise, and Clarisse, a sullen and withdrawn heiress who is married to Eric, a radical publisher who takes her for granted and treats her like a child...