Word: beaulieu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will no longer find a market here, because we've already found out how-to hang one on a wall," says Galvin, whose sales are $260 million, best ever. Another sign that quality can be sold: Paris' George V Hotel stocks a claret that bears the label, "Beaulieu Vineyard, Napa Valley, Calif...
This was her last grand party. Long ailing, Mrs. Mae Caldwell Manwaring Plant Hay ward Rovensky died last July, at 75, in Clarendon Court, her 33-room summer house next door to the Vanderbilts' 23-room "Beaulieu" in Newport, R.I. (She is survived by her fourth husband, John E. Rovensky, Manhattan financier, whom she married in 1954.) This week her Manhattan house, the last of the fabulous Fifth Avenue mansions to be fully occupied, will go on the block...
...half a million a year, became famed for their opulence. For one Fēte des Roses she brought the entire cast of Red Rose Inn, then in the midst of a highly successful New York fun, to a theater built especially for the occasion on the grounds of Beaulieu, her red brick villa at Newport. Said one of her guests, the Grand Duke Boris of Russia: "Is this really your America or have I landed on an enchanted island...
...however, Grace Vanderbilt, now in her mid-80s, was bedridden. Within two years she was blind. Last week, she died of pneumonia. Totally dependent on others in the last years of her life, and confined to the little world of her bedroom, she sometimes remembered the great days at Beaulieu. She would say to whoever was near by: "Come, let's go for a drive, darling." Then her companion, sitting down by Mrs. Vanderbilt's bed, would take her on an imaginary tour of Newport. "There's a sparkle on the water today," she would say. "There...
...Zita, last rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire; and German Princess Anna Eugenie of Arenberg, 27; in 1) a civil ceremony, and 2) a Roman Catholic ceremony witnessed by the ex-Empress Zita, Archduke Otto, pretender to the throne, and 200 of Europe's rich and royal; in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France...