Evening star., 1948-12-19
Marriage Vows Said
By Many Prominent
Persons During Year
Dy the Asseeiaisd Press


Dan Cupid had q busy year in
ls4s.
His list Of marriages includes the
names Of q Rockefeller, q Whitney
q Roosevelt, Churchill, q Hearst,
one Of Ergland's richest peers, q
king and others prominent In So
ciety, banking, sports and on the
stage and screen.
There was one nt-page we'd
ding that especially revived belief
In Cinderella.
Winthrop Rockefeller, IS, son OF
John D. Rockefeller, jr., and regard
ed as one of the worlds most
eligible bachelors, last February in
Palm Beach, Fla, married Eva
("BoboD Paul Sears, 81, charming
and very pretty daughter of Lithu-
anian immigrant parents.
She grew up near Chicago's stock
yards, won beauty contest, went
on the stage, married and after
seven years was divorced from q
Boston socialite, Richard Sears, jr.
| Attended by Windsors.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor
attended the Sears Rockefeller we'd
ding at the Winston guests home
as did many other fashionable folks
But the brides mother and STEP
father were unable to be there be-
cause they were making a batch OF
Lithuanian cheese on their Indiana
farm. They said they were happy
about the event as did the BRIDE
groom's parents wintering in Arr
zona.
Bobo met Mr.. Rockefeller at q
dinner party given by socialite Liz
Whitney. A few months after Bobo 8
marriage, Liz married DR.. Z. Cooper
Persons, jr., a surgeon. Her first
marriage had been to John Hay
CJockD Whitney, who is now mar
ried to Betsy Cushing Roosevelt.
This years Roosevelt marriage
was that Of Edith Kermit Roosevelt,
20, medical student and grand
daughter Of President Theodore
Roosevelt. Edith married Alexander
G. Barmine, a former Soviet gen.
efal who turned anti-Communist
and wrote "One Who Survived"
Surprise Marriage.
One of the surprise marriages of
the year was that Of Anne Cannon
Reynolds, 18, once known as the
richest baby in the world" to her
childhood sweetheart, Lloyd Patrick
Tate, %, expert horseman and North
Carolina sportsman. They were wed
without fanfare November 20 in
Bennettsville, s. c. The bride, q
student at Duke University, is a
member Of the r. j. Reynolds
tobacco family.
The Communists toppled young
handsome King Michael of his
Romanian throne and stopped his
allowance, but they lost to romance.
In Athens, he was married to Prin-
cess Anne Of Bourbon Parma, "a.
Britain's royal family turned out
for the wedding Of the Earl of
Derby, 80, one of his country g
wealthiest peers, and Lady Isabel
Milles-Lade, 20, London beauty.
In the United States, several
bearers of names golden in banking
and financial circles said II do
during the year. They include the
marriages Of:
Paul Mellon, 40, son Of a former
Secretary of the Treasury. and
Rachel Lambert Lloyd, 81. member
Of 0 family with large fortunes in
drugs and razorblades. Both for
the second time.
Warburg Marriage.
James Paul Warburg, 50, author
economist member Of the banking
Warburg family, and Joan Melber,
"A, his secretary. Her first, his third
marriage.
James Cromwell, 81, and Maxine
MacFetridge. 81. Wealthy in his
own right, he was the former hus-
band Of Doris Duke, reputedly the
worlds richest woman.
Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt, "a,
former wife of Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt, and Edward Beale Nc
Lean, 30. son Of the late Evalyn
Walsh Mclean of Washington,
famous for her parties, her Hope
diamond and her book, Father
Struck It Rich"
Several important members of the
fourth estate made news with
their marriages.
william Randolph Hearst, jr., Il.
publisher of the New York Journal
American, was married to Austine
("Bootsie") Donnell Cassini, 20,
socialite columnist on the Washing
ton Times-Herald. Her former
husband, Igor Cassini, 80, who does
the column "Cholly Knickerbocker"
for Hearst papers. also remarked
this year. His wife Is the former
Elizabeth Darrah Waters, 20, tall,
blond. For q time she modelled.
Reid Brandon.
Whitelaw Reid. "a, vice president
and editor of the family's news
paper, the New York Herald Trib-
une, married Joan Brandon, 18,
Barnard College student. She Is
the daughter of O Herald Tribune
staff member.