To Catch A Sunbeam

Jacqueline Kennedy and her brother-in-law, Senator Edward Kennedy, went aboard the yacht of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis yesterday at his private island hideaway of Scorpios in the Ionian Sea.  Their visit is expected to last a week (Dundee Courier - Wednesday 07 August 1968)

Sunday Express - Sunday 12 September 1976 "A tubby little old Greek shipowner called Aristotle Onassis"  Alexander quoted "this preposterous marriage" "Was she really so cold, calculating and plain greedy - that despite being a millionairess already - she could have sold herself to the highest bidder?" Willi Frischaur quoted as saying, "They were totally unsuited to each other, and I cannot for the life of me say what they had in common"  The article claims that Ari turned up drunk to the wedding on Skorpios in 1968 - "hardly a good omen considering his bride's aversion to heavy drinking after the death of one of her uncles due to booze".  The rumor about there being no room for Ari came from WF book, and was repeated in several papers. Kiki denies it. "But the differences were too great. She could not take to his Greek friends any more than he could fit into her arty socialite world" (there may have been an element of tru...

Daily Express - Tuesday 10 September 1957 (Ironically an adjacent article was on Fiona Von Thyssen)  Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping man, may be removing himself, his money and his patronage and his yacht from the shores of Monte Carlo because of differences with Prince Rainier and his Government.  The coldness between the royal palace on the hill and the shipowner in the floating palace in the harbour is no secret.  But my correspondent there tells me that Onassis is now fed up with the constant manoeuvring against his efforts which have re-established Monte Carlo's finances.  The Casino is coy about revealing the season's wins and losses. But this summer has seen the return of the big gamblers and the wave of playing high stakes - and the biggest Monte Carlo has seen since its heyday just after the First World War. 

Liverpool Echo - Thursday 04 September 1958 Sir Winston Churchill has invited Greta Garbo and Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis to help him and Lady Churchill celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on September 12th.  Sir Winston's secretary Mr Anthony Montague Brown said yesterday that the occasion would be purely private with the Press barred. 

Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) - Tuesday 22 September 1959 Athens, Sept 21 - The luxury yacht "Christina IV" sailed from an undisclosed point on the Greek coast near Athens yesterday carrying her owner. Greek shipping multi-millionaire Aristotle Onassis and temperamental Italian opera star Maria Callas on a voyage through the Gulf of Euboea to the northern Sporades.  Callas arrived from Bilbao on Friday by air to join Onassis, with whom her name for the past few weeks has been romantically linked. While Callas is reportedly on the brink of divorce, Onassis, however, has intimated that he telephones every day to his wife Tina, who is with their children, who left Paris for New York last week. 

Ari and Jackie arrived in Ibiza on The Christina 

 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Thursday 10 September 1959 Ari described any reports of a romance between himself and Mari Meneghini Callas as "ridiculous".  He told reporters: "If ever Madame Callas made a declaration of love to me I would be very flattered - but she hasn't". He said that the opera star, also of Greek birth, had been "a very dear friend" of his sister for a long time and had been in a sad and troubled state recently about her husband.  "I have held her hand for her now and again. What is wrong with that." Mir Onassis asked. He said his wife Tina was with him in Paris.  Madam Callas had said earlier that she had broken with her husband - "but not for sentimental reasons". She described Mr Onassis as "only a good friend" The article then quotes Titta re Maria's "Tigerish moods", and even her refusal to sing for Winston Churchill.

Dundee Courier - Thursday 24 September 1959  Mr Aristotle Onassis arrived in Paris by air from Monaco yesterday after a Mediterreanean cruise.   Madam Callas disembarked from Mr Onassis yacht Christina on Tuesday and flew to London for a concert last night. Her host continued to Monaco, where he landed earlier yesterday.