Patience Abbe, 87; co-wrote book about world travels at 12

Patience Abbe was not quite 10 by the time she had waltzed standing tiptoe on Fred Astaire’s feet, charmed literary critics with her conversation, and been promised in marriage to the son of a handsome couple of her parents’ acquaintance, Hadley and Ernest Hemingway. She and Jack Hemingway, also known as Bumby, were toddlers at the time, living with their expatriate US parents in Paris.