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Died. Lance Reventlow, 36, auto racer and heir to the Woolworth five-and-ten fortune; in a plane crash; near Aspen, Colo. The son of Barbara Hutton and the second of her seven husbands, Reventlow devoted most of his time and much of his $25 million inheritance to his passion for racing. Though he mockingly described himself as "a playboy," his win in Nassau's 1958 Governor's Cup Race-in a car he both designed and drove-established Reventlow's reputation as a serious competitor. His love of auto racing and his refusal to give...
...luncheons bemoaning the sudden threatened obsolescense of her friends' wardrobes and her own. In one week, the organization's membership grew from 19 to 1,000 (among them, Actresses Lizabeth Scott and Connie Stevens, Mrs. Harold Robbins and Barbara Mutton's daughter-in-law, Cheryl Reventlow). Dues of $20 a year were established, mainly to cover costs of petitions and bumper stickers like the one already being printed in shocking pink and shocking language: UP YOUR MIDI. "We're not going to let them pull the wool over our legs as well as our eyes," says...
Died. Count Court Haugwitz Reventlow, 73, former Danish nobleman, second of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton's seven husbands and father of her only son, remembered for the violent custody battle for years after their marriage broke up in 1938; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Married. Jill St. John, 27, perennial starlet (The Oscar); and Jack Jones, 29, television and nightclub crooner; she for the third time (her last: Woolworth Heir Lance Reventlow), he for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Married. Lance Reventlow, 28, auto-racing son of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton; and Cheryl Holdridge, 19, California-born starlet (A Summer Place); he for the second time (his first: Jill St. John); in Hollywood. Mom's wedding present: a $500,000 mansion in Benedict Canyon, near San Francisco...