Word: bergdorfs
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Birthdays. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 75; William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 72; Edwin Goodman (Bergdorf Goodman), 55; Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York...
EDUCATION OF A PRINCESS-Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia-Viking ($3.50). Few princesses have had such an "education" as Marie, onetime Grand Duchess of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas II, now fashion consultant of Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman. Her bitter schooling has not embittered her. "Princes of reigning families are a race apart-a race that has been for centuries shut off in palaces, protected, restricted, compelled to live among its own dreams and illusions. Meantime the world and its needs pass us by. That is why we are destined to be destroyed or forgotten." Orphaned...
...When rumors that Marie intended to apply for U. S. citizenship lately reached Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Russian throne, he threatened to revoke her title and rights. The rumor is neither confirmed nor denied. Marie will tour the U. S., lecture, but will keep her job with Bergdorf-Goodman. She started to write her book in English, got excited, changed to French, got more excited, went on in Russian. Says she, "I wrote it with my heart...