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...years she had seemed unable to avoid the glare of publicity. Thus it came as a surprise when word leaked that Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, 58, has for two years sung as a chorister in an almost all-black gospel choir in Nutley, New Jersey's First Baptist Church. Along with the other 100 members of the Angelic Choir, Doris goes to Friday-night choir practice, tours along with the gospelers, and occasionally invites them all up to her 2,500-acre estate in Somerville. "We know Doris is a millionaire," said Pastor Lawrence Roberts. "But all those...
After graduation, he married an art teacher who was the heiress to the fortune of the inventor of the little red wagon. He tried some courses at the Business School, some accounting jobs, and a stint at housewifery before becoming a teacher in a suburban high school. "A Harvard degree is never good if you stay in one place too long," he cautions. "Rather than becoming dully competent to a task you should play the role of the well-mannered but restless whiz...
...conventional narrative, this sort of passage would be called a set-up. S. Schwartz can now be expected to play a later role in David's story-perhaps to kill him, or to sleep with him, or (with sledgehammer irony) to turn up being his long-lost trampy-heiress half-sister. But placing that demand on an item in a narrative is the result of our Pavlovian response to rhetorical conventions. Interesting people float into our real lives, and just as arily float away, but in hard-core art we demand that major plot details assemble themselves into discernible constellations...
Short of the White House itself, the most prestigious Republican entertaining is to be found in the Georgetown garden or leaf-printed dining room of Senator and Mrs. John Sherman Cooper. In her Paris wardrobe and splendid emeralds, Heiress Lorraine Cooper displays an intuitive flair for the metapolitics of power?as practiced in the Senate chamber, or around the dinner table...
Denmark's heiress apparent, Princess Margrethe, carefully curbs any tendencies toward royal posturing in her two-year-old son, Prince Frederik. During his afternoon strolls, he likes to slosh in puddles like any other toddler. Even so, passers-by cannot help but note that whoever that kid is in the gutter near the Amalienborg Palace, he sits there as if he owned the place...