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After Miss Ferber has warmed the pair up around New Orleans of the early '80s, she takes them North to Saratoga's United States Hotel. There, as the Comtesse de Trenaunay de Chanfret (incognito), Clio sets the town by its ears. She breakfasts at six in the stables, eats potato chips outdoors, sets other new styles. She also sets her cap and her talons for railroad multimillionaire Bart Van Steed, the most eligible bachelor in the Western Hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two for the Show | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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