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...Chaillot sector of Paris there lives a woman who calls herself the Countess Aurelia, but who is known to her many friends as "the madwoman." This is not necessarily derogatory. It is difficult to tell how old the Countess might be because she dresses in the style of the 1880's and is rather out of touch with the times--a fear she manages by living in a dream-world and reading every morning a 1903 newspaper...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 1/24/1950 | See Source »

...Like its U.S. cousin, the chickadee, Britain's tit has been taught to relish the meat of coconuts hung on a garden tree.) One Times reader, the bird-loving Countess of Cawdor, took a more ominous view of the matter. "Could it be," she mused darkly, "that it is we ourselves whose mad behavior has affected the tits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Coconuts & Sausage Meat | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." In the first issue of the Italian magazine Insieme (Together), which the publishers had promised would stress "the exaltation of family life," Co-Editor Countess Edda Ciano wrote unashamedly that she had been born out of wedlock to Benito Mus solini and Rachele Guidi, who was later his wife. "For many years, unaware of being a bastard, I was happy," she wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Italian magazine called Insième (Together) announced in Rome that Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, whose husband was shot by a firing squad in 1944 and whose father was killed by a mob in 1945, would be editor of its women's section. The editors said the magazine would stress "the exaltation of family life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...University (for Negroes) in Tennessee. To house its share (101 modern paintings, Stieglitz photographs and African sculptures), Fisk remodeled its old gymnasium into a gallery at a cost of $25,000 and named it for a longtime friend of the university, Author Carl Van Vechten (Nigger Heaven, The Tattooed Countess). Last week 900 people got together to celebrate the new gallery's opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Many Ways | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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