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...often without lunch, until 6. Her corner office is tiny (12 ft. by 15 ft.). Her desk has a bargain-basement clutter of sketches, snapshots and a teacup or two. For her big-spending customers, such as Mrs. E. F. Hutton, Mrs. Pierre du Pont and Mrs. James Van Alen, Sophie usually pops out of her office and plays salesgirl herself. She is quite a salesgirl, and can usually manage to charm the customers into wearing what she thinks they should. Before an adamantine customer who knows exactly what she wants, regardless, Sophie gracefully gives in. "I used to tell...
Married. Louise Van Alen Mdivani, 37, Astor heiress; and Alexander Saunderson, 29, London lawyer; she for the third time (her first and second husbands were both "Marrying Mdivanis"), he for the first; in Newport...
When the Americans reached Alençon, Field Marshal von Kluge recognized the mistake he had made. After Omar Bradley broke into Brittany (TIME, Aug. 7), Kluge had a choice to make. He could have brought his Fifteenth Army down from Flanders and his Nineteenth Army up from southern France and drawn the Seventh Army back so that the three could form a new front along the Seine and the Loire. But this would have involved leaving the Pas-de-Calais and Belgian robomb coasts and southern France open to attack...
...James Laurens ("Daisy") Van Alen, goldplated, blue-haired blue-blood of Newport, engaged a bomb-shelter expert to build a subterranean luxury shelter on her estate with all the comforts of home, air conditioning, special lighting effects, a tunnel to the mansion. She also laid in an eight-year supply of cosmetics...
...spies and wreckers" were "completely destroyed" last week for aiming "at the establishment of an independent republic under the protection of a certain capitalistic power." Among those shot was Budu Mdivani, once reported to be a brother of the Marrying Mdivanis (score: Pola Negri, Mary McCormic, Louise Astor van Alen, Barbara Hutton) but disowned as such by curly-haired Prince David Mdivani (Mae Murray). During last January's treason trial Budu Mdivani's name was mentioned in connection with a conspiracy to overthrow Communism by helping Germany and Japan defeat Russia...