Word: marylou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effects of last November's widespread floods. When the masks came off at 1:30 a.m., the revelers turned out to include: Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, Aristotle Onassis, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paul Getty, Princess Alexandra of Greece, three Princesses Ruspoli, Rose Kennedy, Clare Boothe Luce, Sonny and Marylou Whitney, who wore rhinestones in honor of her recent $780,000 jewel theft, and Richard and Elizabeth Burton, who had dispatched a plane first to Sardinia and then to Rome to fetch the proper dress for the ball. Amidst all the gaiety, practically no one noticed that the ball raised...
There she was, about to face the cream of Saratoga's August racing community. Not that they didn't all know each other; after all, it was the fifth party that Marylou had given in eight days. Nor was it because that, in honor of the Belmont Ball committee, she had invited them to, of all things, an after-the-races tea dance. "There are so many cocktail parties," Marylou said, "I wanted to do something just a little different." The reason for the apprehension was that "they"-the Wideners, the Wetherills, the Vanderbilts and the Sanfords-would...
Miserable on Champagne. The miracle of "it" all was that the thieves had missed the pearls, which Marylou had casually dropped into her bedroom dresser drawer. But they hadn't missed much else: her diamond engagement ring, Sonny's mother's diamond necklace, ruby and sapphire pins, even the turquoise owl pin that Marylou recalled sadly was "the first thing Sonny ever gave me." Even more maddening, there were no clues. Five of the six servants had taken off the night of the theft; the butler had locked every door but the front one. As the police...
Because Sonny likes to have beautiful things out and in use, Marylou uses the silver cups and platters won by the Whitney racing stable for everything from caviar to sherbet. The same goes for the jewelry that Sonny loves to collect. As a result, Marylou has been a stunning adornment to every ball she has attended. Adding a special luster is the 1,900-diamond tiara, once the property of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, which she likes to wear for specially grand occasions, such as the opening of the Metropolitan Opera...
...Empress' tiara, fortunately, was safe in the bank vault when the jewel thieves struck. But there had been an uneasy moment last year when Sonny's wife No. 3, Eleanor Searle Whitney, told a columnist that the tiara was a gift Sonny had bought for her. Marylou would have none of it. Said she: "Sonny bought it as an investment. And I must say, the pleasure of wearing it is delicious...