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Betsey Maria Whitney (née Cushing, formerly Roosevelt; May 18, 1908 – March 25, 1998) was an American philanthropist, a former daughter-in-law of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later wife of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St James's, John Hay Whitney.
Betsey Cushing (1908–1998), philanthropist. Barbara 'Babe' Cushing (1915–1978), fashion editor and style celebrity. The Cushing Sisters were raised by a mother who saw "marriage as a form of female self-expression", and always sought to achieve success through exceptional husbands. [ 4 ]
Her two sisters, also prominent socialites – the Cushing Sisters were renowned in their time – were Betsey Maria Cushing (1908–1998), who was married to James Roosevelt II and later to John Hay Whitney, and Barbara Cushing (1915–1978), [2] who married Stanley Grafton Mortimer, Jr. and later William S. Paley. [3]
The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh - The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters. Villard (1992). Tapert, Annette & Edkins, Diana, The Power of Style - The Women Who Defined The Art of Living Well, Crown Publishers, New York, 1994. Prisant, Carol. Babe & I. Town & Country, December, 2010 ...
The Whitney family is a prominent American family descended from non-Norman English immigrant John Whitney (1592–1673), who left London in 1635 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. The historic family mansion in Watertown, known as The Elms, was built for the Whitneys in 1710. [ 1 ]
Barbara "Babe" Paley was the youngest child of neurosurgeon surgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing and socialite Katharine Crowell Cushing. Her mother, according to Leamer's book, wished for one thing for her ...
Actress Amanda Blake, who died from AIDS-related hepatitis in 1989, was one tough cookie, just like her most famous character, Miss Kitty Russell on TV’s long-running Western, Gunsmoke.
Babe was the daughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing. Together, with her older sisters, she was part of the "fabulous Cushing sisters." [17] Her sister Minnie Cushing was the second wife of Vincent Astor, and another sister, Betsey Cushing married James Roosevelt (the son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt), and later John Hay Whitney. [18]