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...steel business with one of his neighbors, a weaver's son named Andrew Carnegie. His daughter Amy, a remarkable woman of good looks and terrifying energy (she was shooting lions in her 60s), went to England and married Captain Frederick Edward Guest, polo-playing first cousin of Winston Churchill (who became godfather to her son Winston) and Secretary of State for Air in Lloyd George's Cabinet...
Schooled both in England and the U.S., Winston opted for U.S. citizenship when he was 21. A handsome, gentle giant (6 ft. 4 in.), Winston became one of the world's top polo stars; he had a ten-goal rating (the maximum) and starred for the U.S. in international matches...
...Mechanism. As Mrs. Winston Guest, the gay, impudent, restless Ceezee settled down to being a woman in the kind of life she was cut out for just as the social scene in which she moved was acquiring its most important postwar emphasis: the charity ball. For three years-1959-1961-she headed the most elegant and profitable of the balls-the April in Paris, which raised over $200,000 under her chairmanship for French charities...
Ultimately, the "leaders" of the International Set are those with money who do the most with it. Among the most conspicuous: Baroness Heinrich von Thyssen (nee Fiona Campbell-Walter); Rosita Winston, one of the world's best-dressed women and a part Cherokee Indian; Donna Marella Agnelli of Turin, whose husband's grandfather founded the Fiat automobile company; Rosie Warburton Gaynor Chisholm, whose grandparents were Old Guard Philadelphians, and whose mother married William K. Vanderbilt...
...WEST WIND (256 pp.)-Faith Baldwin-Holt, Rinehart & Winston...