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...Cicco. "What can one say about a first marriage," gushed Gloria, "except that it's wonderful?" The marriage, so oddly and prophetically labeled "first," lasted nearly three years and three months...
Furtive Publicity. In 1945, at the age of 21, with the ink still wet on her final decree from Di Cicco, Gloria embarked upon her second marriage-this time with Conductor Leopold Stokowski, then 63, a divorced veteran of two previous marriages and of a well-publicized journey (to Tunis, Stockholm, and Ravello's Villa Cimbrone) with Greta Garbo. Like Garbo and Leopold themselves, Gloria had by this time developed a considerable talent for gaining publicity by seeming to avoid it. Her furtive elopement with the famed maestro from the town of Truckee, Calif, was attended by at least...
When Manhattan reporters caught Doris Duke stepping off the same plane with Playboy Pat di Cicco, they asked the routine question, got a routine answer: "I just happened to meet him aboard the plane. I hadn't seen him for years and I hardly recognized him. I was glad to have somebody to talk with, but every time I talk to someone they try to make a romance...
...laden with abstruse nonsense of a 'changed woman.' No more lace panties, no more T-shirts, no more plunging necklines. We don't believe a word of it." Meanwhile Gussie's latest in a long series of fiancés, Theater Executive Pat di Cicco (see cut), who met her at the airport in New York, flew back to Hollywood alone to attend to some emergency business problems...
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...