World: Remember Mrs. Sweeny?

You're the top, You're Mussolini, You're Mrs. Sweeny, You're Camembert. Back in 1935, when Cole Porter's Anything Goes was the hottest ticket in town, Margaret Whigham Sweeny was more Top than Mickey Mouse or a Coolidge dollar. Chic, beautiful and rich in her own right, the 21-year-old English beauty was married to Gentleman Golfer Charles Sweeny, for whom, the gossip columnists insisted, she had jilted the young Earl of Warwick. That same year Ian Campbell made headlines by taking as...

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