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...time Robert was a bachelor approaching 50. But in recent weeks Gardiner had been seen with Eunice Oakes, the striking, thirtyish widow of William Pitt Oakes (who died in 1958, 15 years after the still unsolved murder in Nassau of his father, Multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes). One columnist even overheard Bobbie gush: "She sends me." Last week the Long Island lord ended the society-page speculation, gave Eunice an olive-sized diamond (plucked from a grandmother's earring), announced that on March 21 she would be to the manor borne. Why the rush? Replied Gardiner...
Died. Joseph Ridgway ("Uncle Joe") Grundy, 98, millionaire worsted-yarn spinner and Republican politician for more than half a century, whose expression of apple-cheeked innocence belied a diehard brand of economic reaction now known in political dictionaries as "Grundyism"; at Nassau, in the Bahamas. The son of a Pennsylvania Quaker textile magnate who dabbled in politics, Grundy learned early about men and machines, efficiently mobilized them for causes challenged even by some fellow Republicans as "Government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public," but which he proudly pursued as articles of faith "next...
After three weeks of meditation and tropical anonymity in Nassau and Florida, former Vice President Richard Nixon emerged long enough to summon Hearst Reporter and bestselling Author Jim (The Day Christ Died) Bishop to reveal some intriguing inklings of his future plans. To all who would challenge his leadership of the Republican Party, he had a firm reply: "No one becomes a leader by saying, 'I am the leader.' The contributions I made to the party, their quality as well as their quantity, will make me the actual leader of the Republican Party. I am the leader...
...Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). "Auto Racing from the Bahamas" during the Seventh Annual Nassau Speed Week...
...housing problem was complicated by the fact that many Republicans (e.g., the Christian Herters, the Cabot Lodges) are keeping their Georgetown properties, further reducing-and inflating-the market. One eager home owner breathlessly told prospective buyers that she had "flown right back from Nassau in the middle of my vacation when I heard that Georgetown prices were getting higher and higher." Hammers & Hats. Along with the harbingers of the new Administration, there were signs of the passing of the old. Vice President Nixon, who had, by his own wish, plummeted from public view "for a while," begged off from appearing...