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Psittacosis and Circus Clowns. Periodically, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell visited their fabulously wealthy grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Londes-borough. When the Earl went bathing, a mile of red carpet was laid down from his Scarborough villa to the sea. When he inherited his estate, he promptly gave all his chief servants checkbooks "so that they could draw on his funds . . . without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge...
...thousands of U.S. cinemaddicts Dancer Tilly Losch means a pair of slanted, come-on eyes, a wide, exotic mouth and a series of seductive contortions. Last week, Dancer Losch (who is also the Countess of Carnarvon) was making her Manhattan debut as a painter...
...divorced her in 1934); 2) the Earl of Carnarvon, son of one of the discoverers of Tutankhamen's Tomb, now a British Army Major. She began painting five years ago after being encouraged by Prime Minister Churchill's portrait-painting nephew John. Cried the Countess last week: "I am only going to paint forever. From...
...such times. For proof we point the guilty finger toward Jack Ashley, of machine tool fame, who this week cund a recipient finger for his stories. And if you're still not convinced, please note the potential international complications in store for Dewey Miller in his affair with the Countess from Austria. Be careful she's not pulling a Don Carlos on, you, D. M., these continentals have interesting mores (customs, to the well-versed reader...
...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...