Word: cicco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Igor has adopted Maury Paul's tried & true formulas: no drinking on the job; plenty of references to favorite people (like Pat Di Cicco and the Plaza Hotel's Colonel Serge Obolensky); a few good feuds, a generous salting of his copy with such phrases-some of them borrowed from other chefs-as snobility, cafelegant, upperclawss, Longuyland, the Rarefied Set. He also leased an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side (Maury Paul said a good address made all the difference). And one thing more: "I think it is very important," he said, "not to develop...
...TIME'S Pony Edition [June 4] I read a letter saying that the gentlemen of the U.S.A.A.F. are very much concerned with the marriage of Gloria Yanderbilt di Cicco to Leopold Stokowski...
Gloria Vanderbilt Stolcowslci, filling out papers for her visit south of the border with Husband Leopold Stokowski, listed her occupation as housewife. In Los Angeles, the Bank of America turned over to Gloria's just-discarded first husband, Pasquale di Cicco, a $200,000 slice of her $4,500,000 inheritance (Pat's first wife, the late, blond comedienne Thelma Todd, bequeathed...
Married. Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, 21 ; and Leopold Antoni Stokowski, sixtyish;*he for the third time, she for the second; one day after her divorce from Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco; in Mexicali, Mexico...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco almost ran down her newest romance (according to the gossip columnists) when Maestro Leopold Stokowski stepped off a train at Truckee, Calif, into a Sierra Nevada snowstorm to help wait out her Reno divorce (due April 20). Meeting him in a secondhand Cadillac which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working...