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Married. Hamilton Fish, 78, sole survivor (Harvard, '10) of Walter Camp's alltime, all-America football team and a courtly, conservative blueblood who took frequent potshots at the New Deal as a third-generation, longtime (1920-1945) Congressman from F.D.R.'s own New York district; and Mrs. Marie Blackton, 56, descended from a patrician Russian military family; both for the second time; in an Episcopal ceremony in New York...
...blueblood son of Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving, and descendant of Washington's second postmaster-general, he grew up in Central Park, meanwhile being bounced from the Buckley School (Lindsay's alma mater). He was later thrown out of Phillips Exeter for punching his Latin teacher, finally made Princeton via Hotchkiss, where his temper cooled and his intellect sharpened, and he graduated summa cum laude. After a hitch in the Marine Corps, he got a Ph.D. in art history and was snapped up by the Met, only to find himself in the last mayoralty campaign drafting position papers...
Rutherfurd came from much the same blueblood milieu as the Roosevelts, was a descendant of both Peter Stuyvesant, the first Governor of New York, and John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts. His father was first a law partner of William H. Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, and later a leading astronomer. One of his own descendants, Grandson Lewis Rutherfurd, last month married Janet Auchincloss, Jacqueline Kennedy's half-sister, in the biggest society wedding of the year...
...within companies. That talent is exactly what Hill, Samuel seems to need. Despite its size and profitability, the company has been split by internal dissension. The trouble began almost as soon as Hill, Samuel was formed 16 months ago by the merger of two distinguished but disparate banking firms: blueblood M. Samuel & Co., and new-blood Philip Hill, Higginson, Erlangers...
Married. Durie Desloge, 22, daughter of Palm Beach Socialite Durie Desloge Shevlin; and Roderic Iain Bullough, 28, London blueblood, Oxonian, former Coldstream Guardsman; in Manhattan...