Better refusals than divorces, at any rate. — Mary Landon Baker (image via National Portrait Gallery) Mary Landon Baker racked up the engagement rings. Before she died in 1961, she rejected 65 marriage proposals — some accounts even report 67. Mary made headlines throughout the 1920s. Her family's fortune made her a "dollar princess," and one reporter dubbed her dalliance with a Yugoslav diplomat "the greatest excitement since the World War." Most famously, she left her blue-blooded beau Allister McCormick at the altar — four times.
A Woman to Know: Mary Landon Baker
A Woman to Know: Mary Landon Baker
A Woman to Know: Mary Landon Baker
Better refusals than divorces, at any rate. — Mary Landon Baker (image via National Portrait Gallery) Mary Landon Baker racked up the engagement rings. Before she died in 1961, she rejected 65 marriage proposals — some accounts even report 67. Mary made headlines throughout the 1920s. Her family's fortune made her a "dollar princess," and one reporter dubbed her dalliance with a Yugoslav diplomat "the greatest excitement since the World War." Most famously, she left her blue-blooded beau Allister McCormick at the altar — four times.