Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Normally, Palm Beach society stays only for the first act when visiting mummers put on a show at the local Royal Poinciana Playhouse. No point in wasting time at the theater with so many parties to attend. This time everyone stayed to the very end of a not-so-hot comedy called A Warm Body. After all, the star was one of their own: Actress and Post Cereals Heiress Dina Merrill, 41, who returned to her family's old wintering grounds to appear in the one-week run. Her mother, Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post, beamed proudly from...
...call it the United States. And we're bound together by our Constitution and our language. Yet, in many ways, we're a group of separate kingdoms. Our land grows palm trees and pine, redwoods and beach plum, vanishing Key deer and whooping cranes. Our people say 'you all' and 'youse'; catch shrimp and sell stocks; live in lean-tos, skyscrapers and stucco bungalows. There's never been such a fiercely diverse land...
Married. Claude Roy Kirk Jr., 41, Florida's first Republican Governor since 1872; and Erika Mittfeld, 32, a dashing German-born blonde; he for the third time, she for the second; in Palm Beach...
...father) a year later. Hutton built the company into General Foods Corp. (JellO, Maxwell House, Yuban, Birds Eye). At last reports, Mrs. Post still held about 7% of the outstanding stock, worth $128 million. The Huttons also built Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room Spanish "cottage" in Palm Beach, and acquired a 350-ft. yacht, but their marriage ran aground. Marjorie in 1935 divorced Hutton on grounds of adultery...
Frugging till Dawn. Nowhere is the Post hospitality more exquisite than at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach. "The only trouble with Palm Beach," cracked White House Aide Robert Kintner, "is that by the time you can afford it, you're too old to enjoy it." The resort enjoyed a considerable revival with the younger international set when John F. Kennedy, son of longtime winter residents, spent a couple of Christmas vacations 'there as President. Now younger socialites seek the more informal social life of Barbados, Hobe Sound, Nassau or Acapulco. Palm Beach is primarily a playground...