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When Mrs. Eleanor Morgan Satterlee, a granddaughter of J. P. Morgan, died of cancer last year at 46, Park Avenue gossips set up a buzz-buzz over her will. She had bequeathed her attorney, well-to-do Sol Rosenblatt, 51 (Harvardman, General Hugh Johnson's right-hand man in NRA, onetime counsel to the Democratic National Committee), the residuary estate of $200,000. To her favorite psychiatrist, Dr. Richard ("Darling Dick'') Hoffmann, 64, on whom many of the gossips would have bet, she left only an oil painting. Last week in a Manhattan court, Mrs. Satterlee...
Cornelius van Dongen was one of the original fauves (wild beasts) of modern art. Today he is one of the tamest pets of Paris. At 75, he is a dapper and well-to-do gentleman who sports a Shavian beard and has a well-appointed studio on the fashionable Rue de Courcelles. Over the past 30 years he has become the most successful portrait painter in France. His models: just about everyone from Maurice Chevalier to Queen Marie of Rumania...
...hammered together spools for barbed wire in a Chicago factory. I worked 70 hours a week and the first month I was paid $3.50 a week. From this, I developed a strong feeling for the underdog and the less well-to-do." Kirtley F. Mather has never forgotten these early years in Chicago. "Perhaps the thing that influenced me the most was my experience as a census taker in Cook Country. I worked in a district known as 'Irondale' where most of the people were recently-arrived foreigners. In one block there were over 400 people jammed on one side...
...Arnall, the appointment ends five years of political exile, and Arnall is a politician from sole to crown. Son of a well-to-do Newnan, Ga. businessman, young Ellis captured five top campus offices at the University of Georgia, graduated first in his law class ('31). Elected to the state legislature at 26, Arnall rocketed upward as floor leader, assistant attorney general, attorney general. In 1942, the "boy wonder" flashed into national prominence when he beat the late Gene Talmadge for the governorship...
...action. Squads of reporters started checking hospitals, obstetricians and medical associations. They ran down endless phone tips on the identity of the mother. Stewart fanned the fire with teasing details. The mother, he wrote in follow-up stories, would be 32 on Dec. 2, already had three children, was well-to-do and wanted no publicity...