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...Palm Beach's fabulous white marble Flagler Museum came back to life when some 425 very social guests attended the pinnacle event of Florida's winter season. The museum was once Whitehall Mansion, home of Oilman Henry Morrison Flagler, a Rockefeller partner who, before his death in 1913, almost singlehanded, transformed much of southern Florida from wasteland into alluring real estate. Built in 1902 at a cost of $2,500,00. Whitehall's 39 rooms include a cavernous (110 ft. by 40 ft.) tapestried main hall that once contained one of the largest Persian Kirmanshah rugs ever...
Hollywood's opulent desert rats in the nearby oasis of Palm Springs paid tribute to "The King," grey-templed Cinemactor...
Burlington pays Love $120,000 a year. With his attractive third wife, Martha, and his eight children, he also owns about $6,000,000 worth of company stock. He has an ocean-front estate in Palm Beach (for weekends), a three-room suite in Manhattan's Berkshire Hotel (where he spends Monday and Tuesday) and a $200,000 red-brick home in Greensboro (where he spends Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). Commuting among them, Love travels some 2,300 miles a week by plane and train, dictating memos and reading reports all the way. He usually works seven days...
...dressed women. Among the past year's chosen few: Britain's Princess Alexandra, Nicole Alphand (wife of France's ambassador to the U.S.), Manhattan Social Lioness Peggy Bancroft, Elizinha Moreira Salles (wife of Brazil's ambassador to the U.S.), Monaco's Princess Grace, Paris-Palm Beach Hostess Gloria Guinness, Cinemactresses Audrey Hepburn and Merle Oberon. Four other ladies rustled their way into permanent niches in the stratospheric Fashion Hall of Fame in recognition of their "faultless taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance." The quartet with tenure, who will no longer have to fret about...
...love children," said Siobhan McKenna during her visit to the Hasty Pudding Institute Friday, "because they are not childish--they are child-like. Children are wonderful because they want to be possessed. I love to work with them, to stand on the stage and hold them in the palm of my hand. This is total involvement, and this is what I believe...