Word: heiresses
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...when a Kansas highway patrolman pulled her over for doing 76 in a 55-m.p.h. zone. But no jail awaited Natalya or the startled author of The Gulag Archipelago. Instead, they received a brisk lecture on traffic customs, U.S. style, and a $25 fine. Hit hardest was Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, who was assessed $800 in Mexico last week after she failed for the past two months to pay the wages (a total of $640 per week) of the 20 gardeners and grounds keepers at her home in Juchi-tepec. Maybe she just forgot: she is never there...
...thought of them as art, the startling window displays fulfill their commercial function: they do prompt people not only to stop and look but come into the store and buy. A sequence of windows in a Manhattan boutique named San Francisco depicted the suicide of a lovesick heiress: the first window showed her talking on the telephone in the stateroom of her private yacht, surrounded by bottles of liquor and sleeping pills; later ones displayed newspaper headlines telling of her death. The heiress was wearing a silk blouse priced at $125; the store swiftly sold out its entire stock...
Patty Hearst has been snatched again. In Network, a thriller-with-a-message by Director Sidney Lumet, a young heiress named Mary Ann Gifford is kidnaped by an outfit called the Ecumenical Liberation Army, joins them in a bank robbery, then helps them try to sell a film of the heist to a big TV network, to be shown on its Mao Tse-tung Hour. During the negotiations, which lead to the crackup of a venerable anchorman, played by Peter Finch, Mary Ann cries out, "It's not the money that's important, it's the principle...
Sexy Guy. It appears that there may have been yet another woman in F.D.R.'s life and libido. Not just any woman, but Dorothy Scruff, coquettish, aging (73) heiress to the Kuhn, Loeb investment-banking fortune and longtime publisher, editor-in-chief and sole owner of the New York Post. In an authorized biography, Men, Money and Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $9.95), to be published in October, Author Jeffrey Potter quotes Dolly Schiff as admitting to a "relationship" with Roosevelt from 1936 to 1943-when she was in her thirties...
...stock manipulators. And then, in what is probably the most searing blow for the bureau, Ungar attacks the organization for failing to thwart increasing domestic terrorism. He describes an intelligence organization that is curiously incapable of penetrating the radical underground, that needs 19 months to track down a kidnapped heiress in California...