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SOCIAL REGISTER WIELDS ITS AXE(Continued from Pxge One)»■ ■ ■■ »Carnegie fortunes, got the bounce for marrying Liv T. Heyerdahl, divorced wife of explorer Thor Heyerdahl of Kon-Tlki fame. His sister, Georgia Rockefeller, got only a marriage listing as Mrs. J. Harden Rose of Lockport, Hi., meaning she will be dropped next year. Their brother, Andrew Rockefeller kept his listing by marrying properly registered Jean Mackay of ; Long Lake, Minn.Isabelle Haskell, daughter of New Jersey racing,tycoon Amory Haskell, was deleted from the register after her much-publiccized off-again, on-again marriage to Alejandro De Tomaso of Buenos Aires.The Register crossed off two of Henry Ford II’s sisters-in-law,Mary and Margaret McDonnel of smart Southampton society for their respective marriages to unregistered Geqrge Murnane Jr. and Robert J. Murphy.Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey fared better by his marriage to socially registered Helen Stevenson, a remote cousin ofrlage listing with his bride, Barbara Redmond of Brooklyn. Next year the great-grandson of. finau-. cler Thomas Fortune Ryan wilt be out*.Hit couslii,jSuzannah F. Ryan, got the same treatment for her marriage to Dr. George' H. Wilkie of Montreal, Que.The Manorial Pell family which still demands a fatted calf each year as tribute from New Rochelle, N. Y., lost Mary Pell from its register listing when she married Robert Whitmer of Greenwich, Conn. But Robert Cluett 4th of shirt-making fortune brought his unregistered bride, Thayer Rodman of Detroit, into, the Register. Marshall Field’s stepson, oil-heir Henry; Phipps; did the same for Diana. Sternberg, formerly of Czechoslb-j vakia. .The Register tactfully recognized the separation cf/Mr./vand1 Mrs, .Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, New York society leaders. It gave them a separate listing.OIL HEATER SETS DWELLING AFIREFire officials today blamed an overflowing cabinet oil heater for a flash fire that extensively damaged the interior of a one.-Adlai E. Stevenson. Meyner and!family1 house at162 Reservoir his. bride have a permanent list- avenue at 7:45 o’clock last night.ing. Margaret Truman and her Firemen arrivine in resoonse journalist husband, Clifton Daniell r,r , arriving in responsestill do not rate a line in the Newr0 an alar™from Box Reser-York Register, though they get voir avenue and Carson street, a courtesy listing in the Washing-1 found that flames had spread ton edition. frpm a downstairs living room,Anthony Drexel Duke of N an open stairway and into a North Carolina tobacco and I second floor bathroom. FiremenPhiladelphia banking fortune got back into the Register by marrying a Newport post-deb, Diane M. Douglas, as his third wife. Duke was dropped for remarrying within hours after his first divorce several years ago. Brenda Frazier, No. 1 debutante of 193$, stayed in the Register with her new husband, San Francisco sociaiite Robert Cbatffeid-Taylor, but Brenda’s ex-husband, John “Shipwreck” Kelly of Kentucky was dropped.directed by Assistant Fire Chief Felix Curci battled, flames more than 20 minutes.Mrs. Frances C. McMullen, occupant and owner of the house, , told firemen that when she attempted to extinguish flames spreading around the burner, the. unit flared up. She escaped injury, A daughter notified firemen.DIVORCE PETITIONST, , n t, Divorce and legal separationThe du Pont family s social pull petitions filed in Superior courtbrought Deborah Lovering of today were as follows:New York into the register when Christine Mennona against Ar-she married Lammot du Pont thur Mennona, both of Stamford Copeland Jr. of Wilmington, married Aug. 30, 1952, desertion Del., son of a du Pont vice prcsi- May 31, 1954; Theresa Miller dent. But the Palmer name of Steinberg Smith against William Chicago failed to cut any ice g. Smith, both of Greenwich, when Mrs. Potter Palmer’s married Oct. 10, 1954, intolerable granddaughter, Honore Thorne, cruelty; Helen Vezina Moore married Dr. Karl Walmsler of against Bennie J. Moore, both of Munich, Germany. Stamford, married May 9, 1954,The Rev. Henry Sioane Coffin intolerable cruelty; June S, Jr., son of a former president of Schleget against C. Frederick the Metropolitan Museum, lost Schlegel, both of Weston, mar-his listing when he married pi- ricd July 21, 1951, intolerable anist Artur Rubinstein's daugh- cruelty (legal separation); Marv ter, Eva. So did Dorothea Hard- Smith Christiansen against Alfred ing of impeccable New York Christiansen, both of Stratford, background for marrying NBC married Feb. 24, 1957, Intolerable producer Blair Chotzinpff, neph- cruelty, and Joseph Barkasy ew of violinist Jascha Heifetz, against Katherine FitzsimmonsAllan A. Ryan 3d, son of so- Barkasy, both of Bridgeport, ciety leader Mrs. William Rhine- married May I, 1947, intolerable lander Stewart, got only a mar-1 cruelty.
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Bridgeport Post
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Thu, Nov 21, 1957
Page 30
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