Word: wichfeld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social event of Palm Beach's 1939 season** to date has been the swank Everglades Club's Circus Ball. Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie...
Married. Josephine ("Fifi") Widener Leidy Holden, two-time divorced daughter of Philadelphia's rich Joseph E. Widener; and Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, onetime minor Danish legate to the U. S.; in Reno, Nev., a few hours after the groom's divorce from Mabelle, a relative of Chicago's Swifts...
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