Word: bluebloods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patient Stoic. The man with the best chance and with most at stake in the outcome is a 6-ft. 3-in. blueblood who has not lived in Spain for 31 years. He is Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, 49, Count of Barcelona and Pretender to the Spanish throne, which he and his monarchist supporters are certain will be restored when Franco goes. Until that happens, he can only wait restlessly in self-imposed exile at Estoril, Portugal's glittering resort, or take the handsome yacht Saltillo for endless cruises in the Mediterranean-an embodiment of his country...
...alone voted for Woodrow Wilson in a class poll at Browne and Nichols School, and after earning a magna cum laude in government at Harvard in 1928 and a Harvard law degree in 1932, he enlisted in F.D.R.'s New Deal.* As a Labor Department lawyer, Blueblood Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general counsel of the Social Security Board, he helped defend the Social Security Act before the Supreme Court. At 33, he was elected to Congress-only to lose after one term to Boston's James Michael Curley...
...Joseph Green Jr., 52, the rosy-faced, soft-spoken son of an Irish saloonkeeper. It was Green who first helped Dilworth toward public office; in 1951 Dilworth was part of a reform ticket that ended 67 years of corrupt Republican rule in Philadelphia. But Green soon came to consider Blueblood Dilworth too independent, and a bit of a snob to boot; and Dilworth had little feeling for Old Pro Green's brand of politicking. After Dilworth became mayor in 1956, Green feuded with him regularly over Philadelphia patronage...
...company board chairman laid on another successful gala, the title was in doubt. The latest refulgent debutante: Charlotte's sister, Anne Ford, 18. Paris Decorator Jacques Frank spent more than a year turning the Fords' Grosse Pointe Farms estate into a Versailles-like setting for the familiar blueblood-boiling beat of Bandleader Meyer Davis. And not even an hours-long downpour-which soaked through the turquoise-colored roof of the vast pavilion and kept a mop-and-bucket brigade of 70 swabbing through the night -could douse the enthusiasm of the stag line, as Anne's photograph...
...Blueblooded Watchdog. Strangely, the man who exposed the scandals was a fellow Democrat, a onetime protege of Dilworth's and an official in his administration. Like the mayor, City Controller Alexander Hemphill, 40, is a well-heeled blueblood with an Ivy League background (University of Pennsylvania '43). The father of seven, he is the godfather of a Dilworth grandchild, and a fancier of Utrillo and Rouault prints. He also takes his watchdog job as city controller seriously -so seriously that when he decided to run for election in 1957, Dilworth tried to persuade him to withdraw. Says Hemphill...