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...persuade people to keep merchandise they are trying to return. Urbanely, he convinces a woman that she should keep a teakettle because of its unique talent for whistling Beethoven's Fifth. In order to snow a snob, he poses as one Carter Phelps-Phipps of the Phelps-Phippses of Boston. "Strange, I don't recall your name in the Social Register," says the snob. "We have an unlisted page," explains Phelps-Phipps...
Born. To Lucy Douglas Cochrane Ceezee") Guest, 43, high society's reigning queen, and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 57, Long Island polo player, Phipps steel heir: their second child, first daughter (Guest has two grown sons from a previous marriage); in Manhattan.
After a pause for the midsummer dog days, the trips to Europe or the work at summer school, the debutantes are beginning to swarm again along the Eastern Seaboard. Last week, for instance, Banker Stephen C. Clark brought out his daughter Susan in Cooperstown, N.Y.; this week Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill...
Out of the 1,000-acre estate of Gentleman Farmer Hubert Phipps, the Kennedys bought 39 acres for $26,000-a bargain by local standards. The one-story home, built on a concrete slab, will have seven bedrooms, 5½ baths and will cost an estimated $70,000. There will...
The family fortune was founded, like many U.S. fortunes, about 100 years ago. Henry Phipps, the mild-mannered, warmhearted son of a shoemaker in Allegheny, Pa., found himself in the steel business with one of his neighbors, a weaver's son named Andrew Carnegie. His daughter Amy, a remarkable...