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...always fled from domestic problems. He was married twice, first to an ethereal aristocrat who declined to keep house, then to an heiress who tried to run his life. According to Birmingham, Marquand behaved badly to both, absenting himself for long periods of time or berating them publicly. He liked to mimic and mock them, and Birmingham unfortunately lets that tone of parody carry over into his own writing...
...heroine. Rose Vassilou, might be a cousin of Jane Gray in her most recent book, The Waterfall. Rose is divorced, with three small children and a national reputation as an "eccentric." What really caused her notoriety was money. A major Midlands heiress, she had enraged her family by marrying a penniless Greek boy and giving her inheritance away to a dubious African relief fund. The family squabble made all the tabloids. Ten years later, Rose is found raising a family in a working-class district of London while her tempestuous ex-husband, now making plenty of money, bedevils...
blessed with a wife who is an heiress of a Detroit manufacturing fortune, but Jane Briggs Hart is a far cry from the oldfashioned, self-effacing ideal of a politician's helpmate. A member of NOW (the National Organization of Women), she flies a plane, runs a stud farm and speaks her mind. "The Catholic Church is racist, and its position on birth control is ridiculous," she once told a reporter, though she is herself a Catholic and the mother of eight. Her opposition to the Viet Nam War landed her in jail during the 1969 Moratorium demonstrations...
Divorced. Christina Onassis Bolker, 21, Greek shipping heiress who displeased Papa Aristotle by marrying a man more than twice her age; and Joseph R. Bolker, 48, prosperous Los Angeles real estate developer; after nine months of marriage; in Los Angeles...
While most successful trainers work for privately owned stables. Whittingham runs a public operation catering to such diverse horse owners as Florsheim Shoe Heiress Mary Jones and Composer Burt Bacharach. Says Bacharach: "When I got into this game I learned one thing in a hurry: Charlie knows how to wait. He's patient while others push too hard." Known as a man who "trains the owners," Whittingham says: "Owners have a lot of money invested in these horses, so you can expect them to want to have a say in what goes...