Word: seventyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ENGAGED. Janet Auchincloss, seventyish, socialite mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; and Bingham W. Morris, 93, retired investment banker described by Auchincloss as "a very close childhood friend." Auchincloss's first marriage, to John Bouvier III, the dashing stockbroker father of Jackie and Lee Radziwill, ended in divorce. Her second husband, Hugh Auchincloss, also a stockbroker, died...
...name it, I've won it," says the seventyish lady in silver harlequins as she tugs at her champagne-colored, pixie-style wig and smoothes the fabric of her hot-pink shift. Mrs. Diane Haley is standing in the kitchen of her tropical green bungalow in Clearwater, Fla., surrounded by prizes: brown vinyl reclining chairs, rattan porch furniture, a turquoise side-by-side refrigerator-freezer, a hairy purple stuffed dog, a pair of TV sets-stacked one atop the other-two imitation art nouveau lamps. An avocado-colored Ford Maverick Grabber parked in the driveway and the gold-patterned...
Indeed, any resemblance between the old Trib and the new entry is coincidental. Though Saffir has chosen as editor John Denson, seventyish, who also edited the Herald Tribune (from 1961 through 1962), the new Trib will lack one important characteristic of its predecessor: news. Denson has designed a stylish, magazine-like tabloid filled with canned features from syndicates and wire services, graced with an aggressively pro-business editorial page and almost devoid of breaking stories. Saffir defends that formula, which was first presented in a June 27 preview edition, on the grounds that the city's three major dailies...
Died. Joan Crawford, seventyish, strong-willed actress who rose from cho rus girl to grande dame of the screen; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...celebrate what she says have been "the most beautiful years of my life," Hungarian-born Jolie Gabor, seventyish, invited 300 of the "beautiful, elegant people of Palm Springs" for a little get-together. The occasion: the 20th anniversary of her marriage to Manhattan Jeweler Edmond de Szigethy, ten years her junior. Jolie's daughters were there, of course: Eva, who has had five husbands so far, Zsa Zsa, seven, and Magda, six. Jolie, who found contentment on her third try, sighs that the girls will not listen to her advice, namely, that "they don't have to marry...