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Though Irvine's development was inevitable, if only because of rising land taxes, it did not take to its new role without some struggles. Historically, the company was secretive and suspicious of outsiders-a tone set by the founder's son and sole heir, mustachioed James Irvine Jr. For most of his 55 years as bossman, irascible "J.I." ruled the range from the spread's white frame "Mansion," battling with squatters, poachers and Government agents. At off-the-ranch social occasions, he liked to bring along a pack of unhousebroken dogs to express whatever pique he might...
Midst marital ruins stood: A. & P. Heir Huntingdon Hartford, 56, whose third wife Diane, 25, has recently been seeing the sights with Singer Bobby Darin and now wants a permanent split plus $4,000 weekly alimony; Bimini Beachboy Adam Clayton Powell, 58, whose estranged wife Yvette, 35, has wearied of waiting for him to return to her in Puerto Rico, has finally filed suit for divorce and separate maintenance of $1,500 a month; Palm Beach Socialite Nancy Wiman ("Trink") Carter Wakeman, 47, an heiress to the John Deere tractor fortune, who wound up a row with her playboy second...
...away from the phone these days. On one line, he has been calling several of the nation's loftier cultural institutions, trying to get them to accept as a gift his $5,000,000 Gallery of Modern Arton Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The star-crossed A. & P. heir first sought to benefact Columbia and Fordham universities, which hastened to decline when they got a load of the museum's $3,800,000 mortgage and $500,000 yearly upkeep; now he hopes that some philanthropic soul like Uncle Sam will enable the Organization of American States to accept...
...buoyant comic comment finally gives way to a flood of tristitia mundi. Paul McCartney's sweet, detached, phantasmic voice begins, "I read the news today, oh boy,"--a strange, sad phrase which grows heavier as the song grows more hallucinatory. At first the news is about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer peer, dying in his Lotus elan, sad waste of youth, but comic in its utter meaningless. The singer turns on and the song turns more dreamlike, ushering forth a complex metaphor to rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes...
Despite their nurture in the sophisticated international society of European royalty, Nicky and Alicky were innocents. They remained innocents to the end. Nicky could have been taken for the twin of his cousin George, Duke of York, who, as heir to the crown of Great Britain, had better luck; he was never worshiped and he died in bed. The young Nicky was fond of uniforms and noisy parades, generous with sapphire bracelets for a ballerina in St. Petersburg. There was nothing to warn him of the gruesome shape of things to come but a swipe on the scalp...