DAV I D PAT R I C K C O LU M B IA ANNUAL RACE OF HOPE IN SOUTHAMPTON
Elyce Arons
Martin and Audrey Gruss
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nean with Pamela, and while everyone was dressed for the Sun and the cruise, Pamela midday would be wearing only her birthday suit. It had a lot of appeal and evidently did not disappoint. Postcript. It was during the Hayward marriage that Leland’s daughter Bridget committed suicide. This was a second incident in the family, the first being her mother Margaret Sullavan who took her own life in 1960. Brooke and Bridget were close. Bridget lived an apartment in the East 60s. She had safe where Brooke kept a pearl necklace that her mother had left her. The pearls had been collected over the years by her 42 QUEST
Jordan Daniel
Roberto Jack Benabib, Samantha Gregory, Caroline Benabib and Peter and Jamee Gregory
mother, were very valuable and took place easily with Brooke’s always intended to be Brooke’s. numbers and there was the It needed to be stored highly rope of pearls. In their perfect secured, and Bridget had per- lustrous condition. Pamela was impressed. suaded Brooke Immediately she to keep it in her persuaded Brooke safe – for which that the pearls Brooke had the should be kept serial number to locked up in a safe, unlock. and suggested she A couple of take them and days after Bridlock them up with get’s death, Pameher own collecla, then still martions which were ried to Leland, Margaret Sullavan called Brooke about Bridget’s several special drawers under safe and did she have the serial lock and key. And so it was. When Brooke much later numbers to unlock it. The two women met the next day as asked for the pearls, Pamela Brooke also had a key to Brid- didn’t have them; knew nothing about them. They weren’t get’s apartment. Pamela opening the safe there and never were discov-
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ered. That was the last Brooke ever had to do with her former stepmother. How one story leads to another in the development of the life. Well-born, same with first marriage, but no money yet a fortune’s worth of “connections” at the very top. She also had a special allure, meaning attractiveness on several levels. As she grew older she had a reputation for “seducing” men with her charm. She also lived high, wide and handsome, especially after marrying Averell Harriman. Recalling the stories which have come to me years after Brooke’s loss-in the early ’90s-I was working on a project about the Cushing sisters:
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