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...leisure, Gross enjoys the quietude of his $300,000, six-acre estate high in the Santa Monica Mountains, where his wife, the former Mrs. Alix Van Rensselaer Devereux Wanamaker, often joins him at his hobby, gardening. At work amid the thunder of aircraft at Lockheed Air Terminal, Gross operates out of a resolutely old-shoe office, with bare green walls, a few wooden and leather-covered chairs reminiscent of his Harvard undergraduate days, and a rolltop desk. One visible vanity: a different pair of Ben Franklin spectacles with frames to match each day's fastidious London suit and breast...
Minnie's achievements are celebrated in a new book by her daughter, Sophie Guggenheimer Untermeyer, and Pressagent Alix Williamson, titled Mother Is Minnie (Doubleday; $3.95). The book does little to explain what it is that equips Minnie Guggenheimer to raise some $100,000 for Lewisohn each year, but it demonstrates unmistakably why she has become as celebrated a figure at the stadium as most of the soloists who have appeared there...
Baba and her friend have a private word-hysteria-for anything of which they disapprove. It is a word they use particularly often in reference to Americans. Yet Baba finds herself entranced by two Americans-Courtney and Alix Nichols, who betray the un-Indian heresy of being in love in the romantic Western pattern. Alix is also a recognizable U.S. type in that when Indian servants place a chair of honor for her, she insists on sitting on the ground. She will love the Indians, if it kills her-and them. Soon, of course, she is an expert on saris...
...Sunday morning a musical press-agent and thwarted opera singer named Alix Williamson was indulging her favorite whim: lolling in her bathtub, lazily singing arias from grand opera. Perhaps because she was singing out of tune, she began to concentrate on the words. How silly they could sound in English, she thought. As pressagents will, she began to turn her meditations to some useful end. Result: a series of double-meaning cartoons, in the manner of "Fractured French," providing the latest spoof of a much-spoofed medium...
Married. Princess Alix, 20, daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg; and Prince Antoine de Ligne, 25, Belgian air force captain, son of the Belgian ambassador to India; in Luxembourg...