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Hattie Carnegie was a temperamental whirlwind, who loved the glittering world she lived in, doted on poker, slot machines and canasta. Her Fifth Avenue duplex was serenely elegant, from the gold-plated fixtures in her bathroom to the crepe-dechine sheets and mink coverlet on her bed. Lunching at the Pavilion, sweeping into the opera or arriving in Paris, Hattie was always a conversation-stopper. Her domestic life was sometimes hectic: after two brief and capricious marriages, she finally settled down with Major John Zanft, a childhood sweetheart from the East Side. "I've had three husbands," she often...
Equerry Townsend was often away from home. When the royal family went on tour, he went along. He spent hours playing canasta with the Queen, parlor games with the Princesses or simply chatting with the King. In 1947, he was away for 3½ months while the royal family toured South Africa. "I don't know what I'd do without you, Peter," the King told him on that trip. Rosemary Townsend, back in Windsor, was also struggling with the problem of what to do without...
Personality & Private Life. Married, and the father of a daughter, he moved recently from his modest four-room apartment to the ornate Renaissance Premier's palace, Villa Madama. Pink-cheeked Premier Scelba likes good food and good wine, seldom smokes. Courteous, canasta-playing, flower-loving, he has a lawyer's respect for the letter and spirit of the law. When a high-placed Roman tried to get a government job for a friend, Scelba replied with icy politeness: "Dear Count, with full respect I must beg you to consider that I cannot take any account of your recommendation...
...worth $8,000,000." She promptly married her producer, had a baby, bulged to a maternal 192 Ibs. Reluctantly reduced, she played a nun in Anna and both Circe and Penelope in Ulysses. She owns a Hudson in which one of the seats can be converted into a canasta table...
...fact that he couldn't ski did not bother Vag too much, because although it snowed everyday, most of the people said the conditions were not right. Instead they sat around in the hotel and played rhumba, samba, canasta, and bridge and drank considerable. Before long any beginner could talk skiing with the best by slipping in an occasional "christy" or "slalom...