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Died. Fernanda Wanamaker Leas, 52, millionheiress and socialite; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of John Wanamaker, pioneer department store merchandiser, she was a successful retailer in her own right. Twice divorced, she was reportedly undergoing treatment for alcoholism when she fell from the fifth floor of her Manhattan apartment two months ago, suffering numerous fractures. She was recovering in Lenox Hill Hospital when pneumonia...
Marriage Revealed. Margaret Wright Bedford Bancroft, 28, dazzling blonde lioness of the undergo international set, Standard Oil (N.J.) millionheiress and partypatetic hostess (sitdown dinner for 60); and Prince Charles d'Arenberg, 55, scion of one of France's first families, whom Peggy once dubbed "my little mouse"; she for the second time, he for the first; in Massachusetts...
...Clark branched out. made his first million in the '20s. In 1929 he founded his present firm, Ivor B. Clark Inc., and rode out the Depression comfortably by finding money for needy Wall Street investors to whom banks refused to lend a dime. Among his financial sources: Eccentric Millionheiress Hetty Green, who collected as much as 10% interest...
Married. Stirling Moss, 28, lean, daring auto-racing ace, first Englishman to win Italy's Mille Miglia; and Katherine Molson, 22, millionheiress daughter of Montreal Brewer F. S. Molson; in London...
After nearly 15 years of marriage (one daughter) and four of separation, beefy Cafe Societyman John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 45, far past his pro football days and farther still from his native Kentucky town, slapped a divorce suit on his millionheiress wife, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly, 34, far past her own salad days as America's "No. 1 debutante and glamour girl." Grounds: desertion. Glamour kept haunting Brenda from the heady evening of her coming-out party (cost: a reported $60,000) in 1938. Moaned she, more than a decade later: "Being a glamour girl is the worst...