Word: chicly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Gloria Swanson, chic, sharp-jawed silent film star (Male and Female), who gives her age as 45, chief attraction of the short-lived Broadway play, A Goose for the Gander (TIME, Feb. 5); and William Mellon Davey, 52, Wall Street yachtsman; she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Union City, N.J. Previous Swanson husbands: Wallace Beery, Herbert Somborn, the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Michael Farmer...
Died. Baroness Robert de Rothschild, 58, chic, platinum-haired, prewar Paris socialite, wife of international banker Baron Robert de Rothschild; after long illness; in Manhattan. Before the Nazis took Paris in 1940, the De Rothschilds abandoned their famed Avenue Marigny town house, fled to the U.S. with their two daughters (two sons, both lieutenants in the French Army, are prisoners...
Social Events. The trials were almost social events. Crowds jampacked the Cour d'Assises, in Paris' Palais de Justice, where Marie Antoinette had heard her death sentence pronounced. Among them was many a chic, smartly-gowned woman. Over the sea of heads few could see more than the naked statues looming behind the scarlet-and-ermine-clad judge, or catch more than brief glimpses of the begowned prosecutors, defense counsel and defendants. But all listened in a silence unusual in French courtrooms...
Married. Rosa Prado, 20, chic, Paris-born amateur flyer and horsewoman, only daughter of Peru's President Manuel Prado y Urgarteche; and Hugo Peter Parks, 24, tall, freckled, British-educated son of Peru's socialite Clubwoman Mercedes Gallagher Parks and U.S. Citizen Henry W. Parks; in Lima, Peru...
...beautiful sisters Marianne and Marguerite Le Patourel, who both fell in love with William at first sight. The plot, spun out to 502 pages, depends on the fact that absent-minded William was no good at names and could never remember which one was Marianne, which Marguerite. Chic, brunette Marianne ("hostesses delighted in the brilliance of her conversation") made indolent young William work so hard that he passed the Royal Navy exams. William was "deuced fond" of Marianne, but he loved vivacious Marguerite, whose hair was "a riotous mop of natural curls" (Marianne had to use curlpapers...