Word: thyssens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were lovely hangers for any dress. Baroness Fiona Thyssen slinked down the runway in harlequin pants by Galitzine. Princess Luciano Pignatelli drifted by in Valentino's feather-and-sequin coat. Princess Ira von Furstenberg pranced on in a Mondrian dress by St. Laurent. And princely P.R. Man Serge Obolensky, who had rounded up his titled friends to stage the haute couture parade, beamed as 2,600 ladies and their husbands paid $10 apiece to jam into Alexander's department store in Manhattan to see what fancy duds a bargain outfit could include on its racks -and incidentally...
Died. Amelie Thyssen, 87, widow of German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen and heiress, along with her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, to his giant Ruhr Valley coal and steel complex, which was confiscated by the Nazis when the Thyssens fled the Third Reich in 1939 and now worth an estimated $1 billion; of complications following a fall; near Straubing, Germany...
With Shell Oil and Esso, West Germany's Thyssen steel interests two weeks ago formed a new company, Thyssengas A.G., to import Dutch gas by pipeline and expand its market in the industry-rich Ruhr by vigorous price cuts. In The Netherlands, the Gasunie marketing combine expects a complete changeover by household gas users to natural Groningen gas by the end of 1966. Because natural gas yields twice as much heat as manufactured gas-and thus requires less gas for the same task-most appliances must be scrapped or substantially modified in the process. One result: mountains of discarded...
...Parke-Bernet Galleries last week staged a doubleheader, splitting sales of 130 modern art works with a $50-a-plate black-tie dinner. On hand were such luminaries as A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, Playwright Edward Albee, Architects Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe, Baron Heinrich von Thyssen, the Duchess of Leeds and all three Kennedy sisters. Nearly 3,000 potential buyers crammed four floors of the auction house with the spillover relegated to the limbo of nearby Finch College, where they followed the high-tension bidding and the hammerings-down on closed-circuit television...
Divorced. Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 43, heir to a $45 million West German coal and steel fortune; by Fiona Campbell-Walter, 32, onetime London fashion model; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Lugano, Switzerland...