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After Rebekah Harkness died in 1982, her daughter Terry took her mother’s remains home in a Gristede’s shopping bag, according to a story in the New York Times.Or, at least, a leg, half of her ...
The song focuses on Rebekah Harkness, a divorcée who famously married into the Standard Oil fortune in 1947, and patron to several New York City dance companies. Swift writes: ...
An American Ballet Story, a documentary about Rebekah Harkness that takes us into the stages and studios of the Harkness Ballet through the stories of the dancers who were there, will be screened ...
Fans and tabloids alike know Taylor Swift's sweeping Rhode Island mansion for the lavish bashes she's held there. Turns out, the house has a history of such parties thrown by a different woman ...
A Salvador Dalí brooch in the shape of a starfish, created for philanthropist Rebekah Harkness, fetched nearly $990,000 at Christie’s. The striking brooch, dating from about 1950, ...
The song focuses on Rebekah Harkness, a divorcee who famously married into the Standard Oil fortune in 1947, and patron to several New York City dance companies. Swift writes: ...
Taylor Swift's Watch Hill home was once the home of Rebekah Harkness, a divorcée who famously married into the Standard Oil fortune. [The Providence Journal, file / Kris Craig] Taylor Swift ...
The subject of “Folklore” song “The Last Great American Dynasty,” Harkness — née Rebekah Semple West — was born in 1915 to “a rich, emotionally frigid St. Louis family,” according ...