Word: contessa
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Then began the rumors about a "contessa," said to have a chic New York apartment; Ford reportedly flew in to see her now and then. On one occasion, the story went, the two appeared at a top Manhattan restaurant only to be told by the headwaiter that no tables were available. When Henry insisted on being seated, the maitre d'hótel was forced to whisper that Daughter Charlotte was dining inside...
...search is revealed, as if we didn't know, in a hurried conversation on a dance floor with the 18 year-old lover of a dilapidated contessa. "What interests you most in life?" Enrica is asked, as the wealthy contessa (Enrica's employer) watches from the sidelines of a Roman night-club. "I don't know. Love I suppose" she murmurs in typical fashion...
...HINO CONTESSA 900 SPRINT is the latest entry in what may be a drive by the Japanese to parallel their postwar success in the camera field. The Italian-designed Contessa is a small, stylish two-seater with a 45-h.p. motor and a price that is right: about...
Divorced. Henry Fonda. 57, hardy perennial of Broadway and Hollywood (Mister Roberts, Advise and Consent); by Afdera Fonda, 29, the former Italian Contessa Afdera Franchetti. dark, lively socialite; after five years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico...
There was still much ado about the nothing worn (above the waist, anyhow) by frail Model Christina Paolozzi, 22, in a full-page Richard Avedon photograph published by Harper's Bazaar in the January issue. The clothes-horsing magazine identified Manhattan-born Christina as a "Contessa" (she insists she is not), proudly admired "the classic spirit, abhorring the demure and falsely modest." But the photo was agitating the female press corps to its foundations. Tartly advised Syndicated Columnist Inez Robb: "The excursion into overexposure has unwittingly proved that not diamonds but clothes are a girl's best friend...