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Happy announcements were cropping up all over, and from her Long Island estate society's First Lady Mrs. Winston Guest, 43, confirmed reports that she too is expecting an heir-or an heiress-some time next October. "I guess I'd like a girl," mused Ceezee, who already has an eight-year-old son and nearly everything else her heart desires...
...chief executive after less than a month in his last job. As its new president A. & P. picked Vice President Melvin W. Alldredge, 51, in an apparent effort to mollify criticism of extreme age among the company's executives. Alldredge is an expert in merchandising, now becomes heir apparent...
When the blight struck in 1845. the eponymous Sir Robert Peel was Prime Minister, the heir of nearly 700 years of British domination, which had left more than 8,000,000 Irish living like pigs-and sometimes with them under the same sod roof. A visiting Frenchman found in Ireland "the extreme of human misery, worse than the Negro in his chains." Why this savage squalor in a fertile land? "All this wretchedness and misery.'' says Woodham-Smith. can be "traced to a single source-the system under which land had come to be occupied and owned...
...only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stephanie of Belgium and last link to the 1889 "Mystery of Mayerling." in which her father and Baroness Marie Vetsera died in an apparent murder-suicide pact that left the Austro-Hungarian throne of the Habsburgs without a male heir; in Hütteldorf, Austria. Only five when her father died, she grew up to marry Prince Otto zu Windisch-Graetz but grew steadily disenchanted with her royal life, divorced him after 23 years to drift into socialism, marry Austrian Social Democrat Leopold Petznek and become known...
Robinson, a reserved and soft-spoken fellow, started out far from fashion - as a car salesman - and later moved into life insurance and real estate. Searching for investments in Europe, he was introduced to young Saint-Laurent, who had been Christian Dior's heir apparent before he was called up by the French army and lost his position at the House of Dior to Marc Bohan. Stranded at 25, he was eager to design on his own. Robinson advanced him the funds, but has stayed out of the fitting rooms. "I am completely ignorant of fashion," he says...