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...auction at Sotheby's in London last week, U.S. Collector Charles B. Wrightsman bought for $392,000 the Duke and Duchess of Leeds's portrait by Goya of the first Duke of Wellington. The auctioneer's gavel had hardly banged for the last time when a group of Tory M.P.s started a campaign to prevent Wrightsman from getting an export license-and that could mean, as it has with other purchasers, that Wrightsman might have to wait months before the government decides whether he can take his painting home, or must resell it in Britain at some...
Last weekend President Kennedy took off for a brief rest at the Palm Beach villa of a friend, Charles B. Wrightsman. There, as he slept for up to twelve hours at a stretch and swam in a heated, salt water pool, his pain could be expected to ease-if, as his aides insisted, his new condition really had no connection with his old ailment...
...accompanied by her sister, Princess Radziwill, wife of a Polish peer turned London businessman, Jackie looked more elegant each time she came through the revolving doors of the Carlyle Hotel. She supped with Art Dealer Harry Brooks, Fashion Editor Diana Vreeland and such socialite old friends as Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Her big evening was spent catching the popularly-priced ($3.95 top) City Center ballet with U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson as her es cort. After the performance, Jackie went backstage to thank the company, heard one member exult: "She has made our season." Days were devoted to fashion fittings...
Barbara Hutton's dashing friend, Freddie McEvoy of the Errol Flynn set, faced a flying visit from his second wife and their 15-month-old daughter, just as Dime-Store Heiress Hutton's divorce from Gary Grant finally became final. Said Mrs. Irene Wrightsman McEvoy, between hops from California to Paris (where Freddie and Miss Hutton coincided): rumors that Freddie and the heiress would marry had "nothing to do with it"-she just wanted to know if she herself was still Mrs. McEvoy. Once he had said he had divorced her, but now he said...
...into the runoff. Thomas Pryor Gore, blind onetime (1907-21) Senator, sought his old seat "to see if a man can still be elected to the Senate on $1,000." Without money or managers but with a tongue slick with political sarcasm, he ran nip & tuck with Charles J. Wrightsman, wealthy Tulsa oilman, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination, while three onetime Oklahoma Governors trailed in the ruck...