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Married. Jaime Ortiz Patiño, 33, heir to a Bolivian tin fortune; and Nada Takla, 21, a Levantine beauty he met while in Lebanon last summer for a bridge tournament; he for the second time (his first: Manhattan Playgirl Joanne Connelley Sweeny, who died in 1957 while divorce suits were pending); in Geneva...
...Widow Alicja Kopczynska Purdom Clark-who during the week downgraded her age from 32 to 28 and doubled her estimated inheritance (TIME, Dec. 1) to $20 million-came new light on her 13-day marriage to the late Singer Sewing Machine Heir Alfred Corning Clark. Insisted the Polish-born playgirl, who dabbles in painting between café society rounds: "This money would have been left to me whether I married Mr. Clark or not." Echoed her attorney: "Even if the marriage [Clark's sixth] had not survived, she would have gotten it all." Why? Well, explained Alicja, noting that...
Last September, 13 days after she became the sixth wife of Singer Sewing Machine Scion Alfred Corning Clark, Alicja Kopczynska Purdom, 32, became his widow. Last week came news that the Polish-born playgirl painter, whose previous marriage to Cinemactor Edmund Purdom was highlighted by clamorous clashes on two continents, had her future sewed up. Ten weeks before he died in his sleep at the family barony of Cooperstown, N.Y., Clark redrew his will to leave to Alicja the bulk of his $10 million estate...
...camera, Natalie became a well publicized Hollywood playgirl. She had a large fling with Nicky Hilton, after Liz Taylor divorced him. She danced and dallied with Jimmy Dean, was often observed on the jump seat of Elvis Presley's motorcycle, and married Wagner in a ceremony that was decorous enough to make some pressagents think it was for real...
...fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place for a self-remade girl...