Word: borgo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...libretto for a musical based on the life of Haute Couturiere Coco Chanel; and Karen Gundersen, 31, a Newsweek reporter he met during an interview last year; he for the fifth time (others: Socialite Ruth Boyd, Actresses Marion Bell and Nancy Olson, and Lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo), she for the first; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Napoleon was her great-great-grandfather's godfather, and she hasn't been able to shake the bit ever since. Born in Corsica (just like him), she moved to Paris (just like him) and studied law (mostly written under him). Then in 1956 Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo, now 35, met Alan Jay Lerner, now 45, and was soon wooed and wed. That didn't change things. As his fourth wife, she sailed into their English-style East 71st Street Manhattan manse and transformed the 16 rooms (plus eight water loos) into a plush Napoleonic empire...
...Pozzo di Borgo) 34, and Socialite Mary McFadden, 24, public-relations director for Dior-New York. Vanity got the best ol flackery. Said Mary, with un-Christian-Dior-ike candor: "Mine is the original model from the 1962 fall collection...
...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...
...Bell (1947-49) was his Leading Lady, as she was in Brigadoon, and she came to the wedding with her music teacher. Actress Nancy Olson (1950-57) was the Upper-Middle-Class-All-Amer-ican-Girl (Lerner referred to her once as "the perfect wife"). Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo (1957 ), a slim, blonde, Corsican beauty equipped with a law degree and a fine record at the French bar, is Sophisticated European Woman...