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...child's mother, beauteous, 26-year-old Countess Jane de Tristan (heiress as Jane Christenson to West Coast shipping and lumber fortunes), waited for the second letter. None came. Police kept hands off, to allow Louis S. Gates, the Countess' stepfather and president of Phelps-Dodge Corp., to get in touch with the kidnapper. But 24 hours went by and nothing happened. The hours were black and long for the de Tristans...
...Participated silently in the day he had proclaimed to pray for peace, by attending the ivy-covered St. James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park. With him were Mrs. Roosevelt and their refugee guests, Crown Princess Martha and the Countess Ostgaard of Norway, who heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson declare: ". . . We are on the brink of the greatest catastrophe of all times...
...Angeles, Five-&-Ten Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, as the wife of a Danish nobleman, renounced her U. S. citizenship, possibly to escape $21,000,000 in inheritance taxes, submitted to registration and fingerprinting as an alien...
...World Champion Lady Vampire of All Time"- Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary, who liked to bathe in human blood, was condemned in 1611 for slaughtering some 300 peasant maids...
Fellowe was Hungarian Pianist Franz Liszt. One of the women was the Countess Marie d'Agoult. She had caused quite a scandal by leaving her husband and running away with Liszt after they had wept together over one of those novels by George Sand in which the heroines always prefer passion to domesticity. The Piffoel family was Authoress Sand and her children. Part of the confusion of genders came about because Liszt's brilliant pupil, Hermann Cohen, another of the party, insisted on wearing girl's clothes. Madame Sand insisted on wearing men's clothes. They...