Word: cassini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anything can still happen in America. Less than ten years ago, slight, pompadoured little Igor Loiewski-Cassini landed in the U.S. with only $10, a hint of a titled past, and a lean & hungry look. By last week, at 30, as the new "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American, he had reached the peak in his peculiar field...
...field was society gossip. Igor's most famous predecessor, the late Maury Henry Biddle Paul, made $100,000 a year out of writing, in his own brand of pink perfume, about the half-world of Manhattan's cafe society for 60 U.S. papers. Igor Cassini hopes to do even better: he will concentrate on what he thinks is the International Smart Set; his ambition is worldwide syndication...
Gene Tierney, blue-eyed cinemactress and mother of a ten-months-old daughter, Daria (her husband is Army Lieut. Oleg Cassini, peacetime Hollywood dress designer), confided to New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson that she was "crazy about strong smells," added "I like to smell babies. Now there's a smell that ought to be bottled...
Born. To Gene Tierney Cassini, 22, oriental-eyed cinemalulu; and Army Lieut. Oleg Cassini, 30, peacetime couturier, ex-husband of Patent Medicine Heiress Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney: a daughter; in Washington. Weight...
...Oleg Cassini, Hollywood dress designer, ex-Count (Russian), new citizen(U.S.), husband of Cinemactress Gene Tierney, joined the Army as a private in Los Angeles...