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...today's sex fare: Wanda von Dunayev, an imperious Amazon, swaggers through a series of near pornographic episodes, whip in hand, abject lover at her feet. Domestic Treaty. In real life, Sacher-Masoch lived out the imaginings of his books. The model for Wanda was one Fanny Pistor Bogdanoff, a strapping lady with whom he spent six tawdry months in Venice. With his first wife, an aspiring writer named Aurora Rümelin, whom he preferred to call "Wanda," he worked out a bizarre set of domestic arrangements. After they married, his job around the house would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacherism | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Died. Ivan Andre Bogdanoff, onetime Russian cavalryman, Senior in the Sheffield Scientific School, through which he was working his way by laboring in off hours at the Winchester Arms Plant; at New Haven, Conn., of heart disease, resulting from war activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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