Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once a leader of Rome society and her husband was an Italian-Brazilian count. But last year Count Marco Fabio Crespi, slipped off to Mexico and got himself a divorce so that he could marry a Brazilian banker's daughter. Insisting that she is still the real countess, statuesque Vivian Stokes Taylor Crespi, 39, whose son, Marc Antonio, 10, is a Newport playmate of Caroline Kennedy, finally managed to get her case to court. Docketed for trial in Manhattan this month is her suit to have herself declared the count's legal wife on the grounds that...
...most people, the mere mention of a Viennese operetta conjures up a waltz of post-Johann Strauss composers-Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Oskar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier), Emmerich Kalman (Countess Maritza). But beside their names belongs another: Robert Stolz. In his long career, Stolz has written almost as many operettas as the other three combined. Now 82. Stolz is the grand old man of operetta, the sole survivor of the golden age of popular Viennese music (1910-25). At Austria's open-air amphitheater on Lake Constance last week, Old Composer Stolz was still at work. Tall...
...after a brief attempt to get through law school, decided to give in and fulfill his burning ambition to be an artist. He applied for an opening at the Moscow Academy of Arts, was nosed out by a girl whom he was to encounter many years later as Countess Tolstoy. Pasternak went instead to Munich and studied for two years...
...industries, from hatmaking to public relations, and they own one out of five businesses. There are 43 women in the West German Parliament, including the Minister of Health. Even a beer-hall political discussion is no longer safe; Die Zeit's Marion Dbnhoff, an attractive countess, is a widely quoted political columnist...
When the time limit is up, the countess will have some new furniture designed. The Most with the Money. Continental Europe, home of the lightly taxed rich, does not yet know the Society P.R. Man or the charity ball; old-line aristocracies stage their own parties, and the climbing offers fewer hand and toe holds than in the U.S. In Rome, Count Aspreno Colonna gives an annual reception in his palazzo, whose splendors no U.S. citizen could match. Queen Elizabeth II once told the count: "After seeing your palace, I feel quite reluctant to invite you to Buckingham...