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...long unsettled heiress. After her mother, Tina Livanos, divorced Ari in 1960 because of his affair with Opera Singer Maria Callas, Christina quickly grew into a child of the jetset. "She was given far too much money-a bad mistake. All she had to do was spend," observes Baron Arnaud de Rosnay, who has known Christina since she was eleven. "She has one of the strongest personalities I have encountered in a woman. She wanted to be someone on her own and couldn't. She is very intelligent, very sharp, but all is spoiled because there is no drive...
Clara's lot improves miraculously, as can happen in Victoriana, when she inherits the fortune of her great-uncle Douglas, the fifth Baron Rhodes. In short order she marries her titled cousin Niles and thus becomes a countess. Whether the marriage is an improvement-whether, in fact, it is a marriage -is a question that remains open till the melodrama's final scenes. Niles is charming and affectionate but in an oddly distant mode. Months after the wedding, Clara remains utterly ignorant of the process by which her species reproduces itself. It is clear that Niles is unduly...
...made suit and L.L. Bean shoes, notes dryly that his occult education came from a 250 booklet ordered from the Franklin Novelty Co. of Philadelphia. It is the same organization that will buy moving-picture flip-books from a penniless Jewish immigrant. The peddler will end in Hollywood as Baron Ashkenazy, producer of those Rosetta stones of American nostalgia, the Our Gang comedies...
...small, private twin-engine Beechcraft Baron, more susceptible to wind conditions than the big airliners, landed on the same strip without difficulty...
Making Movies. When paroled, though, King headed home to Cleveland, where he had reigned as numbers baron. "Most people would rather deposit with me than the Federal Reserve," he says of his days in the policy game. Not long after his return to Cleveland, he helped promote a charity boxing exhibition, and was soon putting together rights of his own. King's first big-time bout as promoter was Foreman's championship defense against Ken Norton in Caracas in March 1974. Even before that fight took place, King was busy bidding for and eventually tying up the Foreman...