Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Prince Franz Josef II, 36, ruler of the half-pint-sized (65 sq. mi.) peaceful Principality of Liechtenstein, between onetime Austria and Switzerland; and Countess Gina Wilczek, 21, granddaughter of the late Viennese Count Hans Wilczek; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein...
...years. He became something of a Vienna figure-his wretched German, his broad-brimmed Stetson hat, his high-laced shoes, his corner seat in Vienna's Cafe Louvre, his troubles with women (for some time he lived with a supposedly sinister elderly Russian woman known as "The Countess"). In July 1941, U.P. fired him for "nonperformance...
...night fire broke out in the old Harry Payne Whitney mansion in Newport, drove. the occupants to the gardener's cottage. The refugees: Countess Laszlo Szechenyi (the former Gladys Vanderbilt), Daughters Sylvia and Nandine, the countess' grandchildren, son and daughter of the Earl and Countess of, Winchelsea. Estimated damage...
...soft carpets. But the same aroma follows him on this present tour of France, the Caribbean and South America. On the Normandie he meets the glamor girl who appeared to have "rubbed herself with a lotion every morning, and then pasted her clothes on her body"; the old Countess "with a face made of Roquefort" and an "asthmatic and dribbly" Pekingese with eyes "completely outside of his head." In Haiti he meets the elderly lady tourist ("white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front of the hotel") and her ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly...
Robert Nathan's last novel, They Went On Together, dealt with refugees being machine-gunned in one of those nameless countries which are Novelist Nathan's today's special. The Sea-Gull Cry is less portentous. A blonde young Polish countess is living in an abandoned scow on Cape Cod. A timid, tender, middle-aged professor visits her. After an infinitesimal tiff, they fall in love. That, except for a pair of pleasant children and a brace of pungent New Englanders, is all. The thousands of Nathan readers will find The Sea-Gull Cry pleasant summer reading...