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Cutlet for the Countess...
...first book published here, My War with the United States (1937) As many of your readers will remember, the story concerned a Viennese restaurateur who wanted to run a restaurant such as had never existed beforehand advertised "Cutlets from Every Animal in the World." His first customer, a countess, asked for an elephant cutlet. The chef rose to the occasion with the punch line: "Madame, I am very sorry, but for one cutlet we cannot cut up our elephant...
Born. To Count Flemming of Rosenberg, 27, son of Prince Axel of Denmark, and Countess Ruth of Rosenberg (nee Nielsen), 25, Copenhagen businessman's daughter for whom he last year renounced the title of Prince and the right of succession to the throne: their first children, twin sons, the first twins in the history of the Danish royal family; in Copenhagen. Names: Valdemar and Birger...
...ambassadorship to Belgium. "What could be more interesting," Roosevelt said to him, "than the carrejour [crossroads] of Europe in the closing days of the war?" Margaret Sawyer had died in 1937 after bearing him five children. In 1942 Charles Sawyer had married again: his bride was handsome Countess Elizabeth de Veyrac, nee Lippelman, a neighbor and onetime professional dancer. He took her off to Belgium. He escaped machine-gunning by a Nazi flyer on New Year's Eve, 1944, made friends among the Belgians by his understanding and sympathy, and returned...
...Countess' world is shattered one day when she learns that her friends are unhappy because the "pimps" are taking over. (The pimps, explains the Rag-picker, are the parasites and non-productive members of society--presidents and vice-presidents of corporations, to be specific but non-inclusive,) The Countess sets out to rid Chaillot of such wickedness, which she manages to do in short order, there being "nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon." How she accomplishes this, and the introduction it affords to the Countess...