Word: cassini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role as Hearst's "Cholly Knickerbocker," pompadoured Society Gossip Igor Loiewski-Cassini (TIME, Nov. 5) last week started a series of profiles on New York social registerites. To prepare himself, he boned up on the Astor clan by reading Dixon Wecter's scholarly Saga of American Society. When it came time to share his new-found knowledge with his readers, Gossip Cassini found himself full of his reading. Samples...
...Cassini: ". . . William Waldorf removed himself to England, became a British subject and amid jeers from a large section of the British press, which accused him of buying the title outright, became . . . Viscount Astor...
Spicy Little Column. Igor's distant alliance with nobility, which he makes much of, comes from being grandson of Count Arthur Cassini, once the Tsar's Ambassador to the U.S. Igor was born in Sevastopol, grew up (after the revolution) in Denmark, Switzerland, Italy. At 21 he came to the U.S. to coach tennis at the University of Georgia, went back to get his brother, Oleg, a nubile young man. Oleg's marriages, to date: with Million-heiress Merry Fahrney, Cinemactress Gene Tierney. Igor covered sports and read proof for an Italian paper in New York, wrote...
...Cassini was drafted in October 1943 just after he had signed a contract to-become Cholly Knickerbocker. Bootsie kept Igor's old Washington column going while her husband, a sergeant on Stars & Stripes, became a pal of socialite colonels and generals in England and France...
Still ecstatic about his medical discharge from the Army, Igor Cassini gushed in a recent column: "Peace, it's wonderful! What a change from the muddy boots, the shivering cold, the caked blood." Better times were coming: "We're in for an era of mad spending and fun-making. . . . Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. entertained at a gala dinner...