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...morning the retainer answered the door, was told by a swarthy, heavy-browed man: "I am Dr. Salazar. Please announce me to the Countess of Sarre."*Thus Maria Jose, Italy's Queen for May, and her four children arrived in exile at Cintra, and were greeted by Portugal's Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
Rockefeller Foundation grants totalling nearly $500,000 were provided for research in numerous fields, ranging from psychiatry to the development of Slavic studies, and the estate of Sarah Elizabeth de Quirez, Countess of Santa Eulalia, contributed funds for the purchase of the Pahla Library of Portuguese literature and history for the College Library...
Tilda Thamar, blonde, green-eyed Argentine cinemactress, arrived in Miami to build up a little hemispheric good will, lost no time buckling down to work (see cut). Her name-around-the-house: Countess Toptani. Her husband's cousin: Albania's ex-King Zog. Among her distinctions: quadrilinguality...
Leonora Margaret, 35-year-old dowager Countess of Inchcape (newspaper nickname: "Princess Gold") and eldest of the abdicating Raja of Sarawak's three marrying daughters,* prepared to marry a 49-year-old divorced Vermonter in London (and incidentally forfeit a $12,000 widow's annuity). The groom-to-be: plump Colonel Francis P. Tompkins, lifetime Army man, pre-D-day Counter-intelligence planning chief...
Prewar dweller on the Riviera, he hoped to return "in about a year," meantime dwelt in Manhattan with handsome, Greek-born Wife Atalanta (the former Countess Atalanta Mercati), Son Michael John, Daughter Venetia. Now 50 and quite grey (but with wavy and slickly groomed hair), Glitterateur Arlen was trying to grow a stomach to earn the children's respect. Said he: "In my house everyone goes around nude ... so everyone peers at me, looking for the corporation. But it's not there...