Word: cavendish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Craignez honte-Fear disgrace-is the motto of Britain's Cavendish-Bentinck family. It does not mean "Fear accusations." Poland's Communists, abetted by their comrades in London, used the technique of the personal smear campaign against British Ambassador Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, who faced it coolly. Then Polish Government officials simply refused to see Cavendish-Bentinck. Last week, his usefulness in Warsaw ended, he announced that he had been transferred to another post. London sources said it was a better...
...Cavendish-Bentinck's Polish experience had been bitter. To find out what was going on, he had driven around Poland, visited old friends, including some aristocrats he had known since 1919, when he was assigned to Warsaw as Third Secretary. Last November the Polish Government arrested his friend Count Ksawery Grocholski, whooped up an espionage trial that pointed to Cavendish-Bentinck (without naming him) as the recipient of "military and state secrets...
Adele Astaire, 46, who twinkletoed to fame with brother Fred in many a musi-comedy (Funny Face, The Band Wagon) before she became Lady Charles Cavendish, returned to Manhattan as effervescent as ever after a decade of country gentility in England and Eire. She announced that Fred had decided to quit hoofing after his next picture ("which pleases me, for I want the boy to live awhile"). She thought that U.S. living would put her in better shape: "It is wonderful to see all the lovely girdles. You know our posteriors have spread quite a bit over there...
Songs & Stories. When they were not too busy the U.S. staff gathered in the evening to hear Balkan Specialist Cavendish Cannon play the piano. He and James W. Riddleberger, the department's German specialist, and Charles Eustis Bohlen, Russian-speaking specialist on the U.S.S.R., had the most work to do. Their boss, Assistant Secretary of State James C. Dunn, looked cheerful although he had not been in favor of a hard peace for Germany. U.S. delegates who knew no Russian learned two words from daily dealing with the Russian Security guards who stood by every Potsdam door. The words...
Dummies and Wives. Two Cavendish members- George Rapee, 29-year-old U.S. individual world contract bridge champion, and Howard Schencken, longtime a Life Master, famed as the bridge experts' expert- are at work on a Check guidebook...