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...years of reporting for the United Press in Vienna, Robert Henry Best developed an obsessive hatred of Jews, the New Deal and Communism. He lived with an aging, dope-addicted "countess"; after she died in a lunatic asylum, he married a young German governess...
...will be here but me." Last week Carla was in Italy, and son Walter and his family were staying with the Maestro at the big house in Riverdale. Daughter Wanda visits frequently (with her pianist husband, Vladimir Horowitz). He often talks by telephone with his other daughter Wally, the Countess Castel-barco, who lives in Italy...
...another part of Paris, a countess with a centuries-old name expressed it differently. She lay back in a deep armchair and waved a delicate hand in a vague, tired gesture: "Whether I am better off? Ma pauvre amie! A year ago I still had my servants-I can't afford them today. I go to market myself, line up in the queue and join the discussion of the housewives about carrots. There were times in my life when I didn't even know what carrots were...
...National Gallery, looked strangely familiar. Probably, said the National Gallery experts last week, Illustrator John Tenniel had used it as the model for the Duchess in Alice. Flemish Master Quentin Matsys (1466-1530), who had painted the original, had intended it as a caricature of Margaret (nicknamed "Pocket-mouth"), Countess of Tyrol. About the only change Tenniel made, agreed the London News Chronicle, was to add "ermine to the headdress and sausage curls to the forehead." Otherwise little was otherwise...
...Madame la Comtesse Monique de la Moissonière launched a new fashion scheme: a "circulating library" for hats. From her stock of 100, women can rent the latest and zaniest at 500 francs for 24 hours (special offer: twelve hats a month for 3,000 francs). Said the countess: "This is my version of American mass production...