Word: heiresses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have that much this time round, but neither is he in financial trouble. Harvard Professor Martin Peretz, who gave McCarthy $100,000 to run last time, is one of about 20 contributors who have already put up $200,000 for another campaign. Peretz, whose wife is a Singer heiress, is hesitant to throw the vault wide open "unless Gene shows the determination to make a hard and serious effort." If McCarthy does that, the money is obviously there. HENRY JACKSON. Money has not been one of Scoop Jackson's worries, and it will not be a problem as primary...
...golden-haired Cinderella grown up, a fairy-tale heiress to a legacy of ambition and success, a curiosity, a sex symbol. As did Jackie and Ethel in their time and turn, Joan Kennedy has become a public personality in her own right. On the gilt and antique gristmill that is the Washington cocktail circuit, she has been no less a source of speculation in recent months than Teddy himself. One day, she is a shy, self-styled homebody. The next, she is playing the piano on nationwide television, or shocking Washington with dresses cut down to there or slit...
BESIDES Beverly Sills, the other leading heiress to Maria Callas' artistic legacy is the Australian coloratura soprano Joan Sutherland. Sutherland, 45, sings many of the same roles as Sills and, like Sills, was a late bloomer-she burst onto the international scene with a Lucia di Lammermoor at Covent Garden in 1959. Otherwise the two are a study in contrasts: separate conjugations of greatness. Each has her passionate following. Ask a Sutherland admirer about Sills' voice and he might say, "Pretty, but thin." Ask a Sillsian about Sutherland and he might retort, "Beautiful, but boring." Still, all would...
...This Acheson had-to a fault. His career was a textbook example of the rise of a 'patrician in the snug embrace of the American Establishment. His father was a clergyman who migrated to the U.S. from Britain and became Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. His mother was an heiress, daughter of a family of Canadian whisky distillers. Young Dean attended Groton, Yale and Harvard Law School. He married Alice Stanley, his sister's roommate at Wellesley. He clerked for two years for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who became a fast friend and mentor...
...booze, and had to make it to the state line in a mighty hurry. But the Prays' illicit little empire grows and grows, until they join forces with a big-time con artist in an elaborate plot to pass Addie off as a missing New Orleans heiress...