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Completing his freshman year at Oxford, Auberon Waugrt, 20-year-old son of Author Evelyn Waugh, established himself an heir to his father's literary precocity by announcing that his first novel will be published in September. Theme: "Terrible mother-son hatred." Title: The Foxglove Saga. "I didn't want to call it something disgustingly contemporary like Rushing Nowhere or Rotten...
Marriage Revealed. William Palmer Pyle Jr., 22, Michigan State football tackle signed this year by the Baltimore Colts, son of a Chicago food company executive and brother of Yale's football captain-elect; and Marie Judith Accardo, 20, willowy, blonde daughter of "Tough Tony" Accardo, an heir to Al Capone's Chicago crime syndicate; in Chicago...
Alicia Patterson was a poor little rich girl, the daughter of New York Daily News Founder Joseph Medill Patterson, childless and restless after two divorces, with little to occupy her but New York's nightclub circuit. Harry Guggenheim also was born rich; heir to a mining and minerals fortune, he headed two of his family's multimillion-dollar foundations, served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba. In 1939, Harry and Alicia were married and set up light housekeeping in a 30-room Norman chateau at Sands Point, Long Island. Within a year, Guggenheim found a novel way of giving...
...anyone's hand Paul Conrad, 35, editorial cartoonist of the Denver Post, counts as one of the fingered few, and is probably the nation's hottest new cartooning property. He has already been given a semiofficial anointment as the heir apparent to the Washington Post and Times Herald's brilliant and club-wielding Herbert Block ("Herblock"). Since January, a Conrad cartoon has gone out each week, together with five Herblocks, to the 200 newspapers in Herblock's syndication...
Nino Chiari, a serious, quiet man, is the heir to a family fortune in ranching, sugar and dairy farming, which he has built up by riding his ranges in shirt-sleeves and keeping an austere eye peeled for signs of waste or obsolescence. This year conservative Chiari campaigned on muted issues of harder work, fewer government employees, more development projects and fewer showcase public works. He made only a mild plea for the right to fly the Panamanian next to the U.S. flag: "I cannot see what harm it can possibly do a country as large...