Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Marshall Field III, 42, twice-divorced Chicago department store scion, who receives the bulk of his grandfather's $140,000,000 estate when 50; and Ruth Pruyn Phipps, who divorced Socialite Ogden Phipps last month; in Manhattan...
...conversation last week. The new young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden might not be doing much at the moment (see col. 3), but the new young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had just signed the most drastic reorganization order the British Army has ever received. In effect this Mayfair scion, whose famed wife Lady Diana Manners played The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, ordered: "No more cavalry...
Died. Italy's No. 1 Socialist duke, Leone Caetani, 66, Prince of Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them...
Divorced, LeBaron Colt, firearms scion, grandson of Rhode Island's onetime Senator LeBaron Bradford Colt; by Frances Jackson Reynolds Colt, daughter of North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
...notable women in Manhattan's Success Set are Mrs. Florence Nightingale Graham Lewis and Mrs. Clara Fargo Thomas. Mrs. Lewis, daughter of a Canadian truckman, now makes nearly a million dollars a year as Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics. Mrs. Thomas, socialite scion of the "Pony Express" Fargos, took up painting after her marriage to a Manhattan realtor. The two women are friends. Last week, between them, they had produced one of the oddest combinations of Culture, Art and Advertising ever seen...