STATES & CITIES: At Reynolda

On the evening of July 5 Zachary Smith Reynolds, eccentric 20-year-old son & heir of the Camel cigaret fortune, gave a small birthday party for a friend at "Reynolda," the family's 600-acre estate at Winston-Salem, N. C. Hostess to a dozen guests was his bride of seven months, 26-year-old Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds, shapely, olive-skinned "torch singer" of Broadway musical shows. Also on hand was Albert ("Ab") Walker, 19, athletic son of a local realtor. Smith Reynolds' friend and "secretary."

A barbecue supper was served near the lake. Much corn whiskey produced...

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