Word: wrightsmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlene Wrightsman was born to a milieu of multimillionaires, multiple marriages and many mansions. Her grandfather amassed an early fortune in the Oklahoma oil fields, and was the man credited with thinking up the oil depletion allowance, for which all U.S. oilmen still revere and praise him today. Her father, Charles B. Wrightsman, 67, was once the president of Standard Oil of Kansas, has massive oil holdings in eight states, and is one of America's least known rich...
...invented the name "jet set" and chronicled and shared in its gossipy escapades. Under his real monicker, Igor Cassini, 47, was on kissing terms with the Kennedys; his brother Oly is Jackie's favorite dress designer, and his third wife is the daughter of Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman, the Kennedys' neighbor in Palm Beach, Fla. Such weight did he swing that he was instrumental in having Diplomat Robert D. Murphy sent on a secret White House mission in 1961 to listen to the laments of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo, then wilting under U.S. sanctions...
Following right along behind No. 1 Jackie and her sister, the Princess, were Close Friends Mrs. Charles Wrightsman (husband: oil millionaire), Mrs. Loel Guinness (husband: international financier), Mrs. Gianni Agnelli (husband: Fiat auto heir), and Mrs. Hervé Alphand (husband: France's Ambassador to the U.S.). All of the six were present at a New Year's Eve party given by Mrs. Wrightsman in her 40-room Palm Beach winter place. The ladies, who among them spend about a quarter of a million dollars a year getting dressed, looked...
Jackie made the most of Lester Lanin's music. To the tune of Never on Sunday, she tripped a nimble fox trot with the Colombian ambassador; while she was dancing with France's Ambassador Alphand, Millionaire Charles Wrightsman, a Palm Beach neighbor, cut in. President Kennedy proved more of a wanderer than a dancer; he frequently left the presidential table to greet and joke with guests. Totally relaxed, he seemed solemn only once, during a ten-minute chat with Brother Bobby, presumably about the crisis in Mississippi. He was coaxed onto the floor twice, dancing with his sister...
...that the wife of Senator Jack Kennedy began buying some of their clothes. Two years ago, they moved out to a new place of their own on Park Avenue. Jackie moved with them, and so did such customers as Mrs. William Paley, Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, Mrs. Douglas Dillon and Mrs. John Sherman Cooper...