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Died. Gertrude Douglas Widener, 71, One of thoroughbred racing's grandes dames; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though married to Peter A.B. Widener II, heir to the racing and breeding dynasty, the beautiful socialite was determined to make it on her own; under her own colors, she bred and raced such horses as Hula Dancer and Dan Cupid. Her greatest was the stallion Polynesian, winner of the 1945 Preakness and sire of the magnificent Native Dancer...
Freakily Foxy. Many concluded that Brody was either a manic depressive or almost transcendentally zonked on drugs. He boasted of having taken over 400 trips on LSD. Everywhere he went, Brody was accompanied by his 20-year-old bride Renee, a quiet, fey brunette who says she met the heir last December when she was dealing some hashish to a friend of his. On an impulse excursion to Puerto Rico last week, Mike and Renee trailed a cloud of marijuana smoke behind them...
Died. Don Carlos de Beistegui, 75, Spanish playboy and jet set superhost; of a heart disease; in Montfort-l'Amaury, France. Heir to ever-producing Mexican silver mines, Beistegui squandered fortunes on incredibly lavish parties -most notably in 1951, when at a cost of $750,000 he restored Venice's 89-room Palazzo Labia, gilded it with an estimated $3,000,000 worth of period trappings, then treated 1,500 friends to a stupendous all-night bash...
...York extended open palms to a long-haired oleomargarine heir who plans to give away his entire $25 million fortune. Michael J. Brody Jr., 21, a member of the Jelke clan, hopes quixotically to see "everybody as rich as I am." "Then," he adds, "I'll leave the world alone and go to a desert island." Mike, who wants to become a rock musician and his bride of two weeks, Renee, have asked for 20,000 volunteers to help them spread the wealth...
...different metallic colors to represent the cold insensitivity of the royal family and the Ironshirts. The corresponding actors set themselves in changing physical relationships with these horrifying puppets, wheeling them around the circle or chaining themselves to the giant torsos. A bizarre raggedy-Ann doll represented Michael, the infant heir, emphasizing his impotence in the face of the cross-currents of intrigue...