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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...
Died. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, 64, U.S. Ambassador to Spain, charming, perspicacious scion of one of Philadelphia's richest Republican clans, an early F.D.R. backer who at 38 left behind his playboy ways, a dozen corporate directorships and 22 club memberships for a career as a military and diplomatic troubleshooter that won friends and advantage for the U.S. in many nations; of a heart attack following the onset of lung cancer; at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. After stints as U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland, athletic, impeccably tailored Tony Biddle served brilliantly during the early days...
...LADY, by Howard Spring (448 pp.; Harper; $4.95). Author Spring's 13th novel chronicles the tangled destinies of the Chown family, whose women have a marked tendency to produce bastards. The narrator is George Ledra, the somewhat stuffy scion of a Manchester cotton broker. On vacation in Cornwall, 15-year-old George one felicitous morning hides in the bushes above a beach to watch Sylvia Chown Bascombe and her daughter Janet "wade naked ashore, glistening in the sunshine. They were both beautiful, the one full-breasted, the other budding." It was, thinks George, "a moment that belonged...
Married. Cathy Crosby, 22, daughter of Bandleader Bob and only female vocalist in the Crosby clan; and Edwin Gilbert, 32, scion of a Texas oil family; both for the first time; in Houston's St. John the Divine Episcopal Church...
Married. Alfred Corning Clark, 45, multimillionaire scion of the Singer Sewing Machine clan; and Alicja Darr (nee Kopczynska) Purdom, 30, Polish-born painter once stormily married to Cinemactor Edmund Purdom; he for the sixth time (in 20 years), she for the second; in Cooperstown...