Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beginnings. The whole story, however, had its fascinating aspects from the very beginning, combining a dry-as-dust search through records along with the discovery of some eminently flesh-and-blood personages, especially Durie Malcolm...
Surviving Blauvelt family members say that "Uncle Louis" was a meticulous researcher and record keeper. For each entry in his genealogy, he kept an index card that referred to the source of his information. The card on Durie Malcolm cites only a letter from Howard Ira Durie of Woodcliff Lake, N.J. Howard Durie says his letter was "conversational," merely stated that he had seen a society column which noted that Durie Malcolm and Jack Kennedy had attended football games together in Miami...
...cross-referenced, and was very thorough." But, she says, "I have no idea where the item about a Durie-Kennedy marriage came from. My father must have made a mistake." He was indeed slipshod in the paragraph in question. He spelled Durie's maiden name Malcom instead of Malcolm, reversed her first two marriages., and neglected to mention that for a decade before the publication of his genealogy she had been Mrs. Thomas Shevlin...
Bouquets & Corsages. Durie was born on Dec. 30, 1916 to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kerr. By the time she was four, her mother had been divorced and was married to George H. Malcolm, a wealthy Otis Elevator Co. executive. Durie grew up in Chicago's suburban Lake Forest, attended Virginia's Chatham Hall, was a member of the Chicago Junior League. Slim and attractive, she was popular at parties in the early '30s at the Racquet Club, the Service Club-and as a charity-fashion-show model...
...highest award for heroism by swimming through a sea of flame to rescue two of his PT boat crew, has just been voted another outstanding decoration. Palm Beach's cottage colony wants to give [him] its annual Oscar for achievement in the field of romance . . . giving Durie Malcolm Desloge the season's outstanding rush. The two were inseparable at all social functions and sports events. They even drove down to Miami to hold hands at football games and wager on the horses. Durie is the daughter of the George H. Malcolms of Palm Beach and Chicago...