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...wildly extravagant, the daughter was a great beauty and Madame de Sévigné married her off to a rich, twice-widowed count. But when her daughter left her side, Madame de Sévigné began carrying a literary torch. Mamma is soon berating the young countess for her recurrent miscarriages and successful pregnancies. The count, of course, is even more blameworthy. "You are reported to have said [regarding] my daughter's confinements . . . that the oftener she does it the better. Dear God! She never does anything else . . . If this poor machine is never allowed a pause...
Blaze Starr sparks this week's all-new travelling show at the Casino. Also, Countess Barrassy, just in from Versailles. Shows at 12 noon, 2:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m., but, according to a friend, you get twice your money's worth at the late performance, 10 p.m. Ladies invited...
...Real Failure. Reynaud himself gives no answer to this question, but perhaps a clue might be found in the reminiscences of Pertinax. Reynaud had a mistress, Countess de Portes, whom nobody except Reynaud seems to have liked very much. He also had a wife. Anglo-Saxons believe that the French have a way of managing these things. Not so Paul Reynaud, who had the unhappy faculty of finding himself in the same salon with both ladies. It is possible to suspect that Paul Reynaud, for all his intelligence, lacked organizing ability. This is confirmed on the political level...
...them" again. Weatherman Truman sided with the much-maligned experts, too. Asked why Kansas City had been blanketed by an unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled: "If you had looked at the weather map, you would have seen it was in the cards." In Brussels, comely Countess Alvina Van Limburg Stirum, 43, was asked about rumors that she will soon be engaged to the ex-suitor of Britain's Princess Margaret, Group Captain Peter Townsend, 41, an air attache at Britain's local embassy. Snorted she: "Absolute nonsense." Seconded Townsend: "Complete nonsense." Added the countess...
After a prosaic civil ceremony in the city hall of Versailles, pale, black-browed Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa, 43 this week, ex-countess, twice an ex-princess, motored back to her rose-festooned Ritz Hotel suite in Paris with her sixth groom. Having demoted herself to a baroness, Barbara beamed nonetheless at her attentive husband, once Nazi Germany's top tennis ace, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46. He had met Barbara about 18 years before in Cairo. Amidst toasts at the Ritz, the baron recalled: "We liked each other very much...