Word: cousine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marriage Revealed. John Spencer-Churchill, 46, distant cousin of the late Sir Winston and the eleventh Duke of Marlborough; and Countess Rosita Douglas, 26, a Swedish fashion designer; he for the third time, she for the first; in London...
...totally incredible pose, and had she spent any great amount of time on stage her manner would quickly have become overbearing. But for the moment it was appropriate. Joe Timko diametrically opposed her overblown entrance with his own underplayed behavior in the role of Truchet, her lover and "cousin...
There is nothing like an infusion of royalty to raise money for a good cause. Princess Alexandra of Kent, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, lent her aristocratic presence to a dinner dance at Manhattan's Americana Hotel, and the infusion was further strengthened by the presence of Film Star Cory Grant. The result was a happy stamping ground for some 1,200 of New York's upward mobility set and a gratifying take for Variety Clubs International, which aids handicapped and needy children...
...came to the U.S. in 1921 as a stowaway from Palermo, Sicily. In a brotherhood where "respect" is achieved by assassination, there is a strong caste system. For years the Gambinos were disdained by the other Mafia families. Gangsters called them "the degenerates" because Carlo married his first cousin and his brother Paul married another cousin. There were a number of stories that neither Carlo nor Paul had ever killed anyone-which is ample reason for them to be held in contempt-and both were suspected of sitting out the Castellammarese war, tending their bootleg stills instead of shooting their...
...little tobacco-growing village in Macedonia, he will not tell you that during the "referendum" on the so-called Constitution of 1968 (where the "yes" votes were 94 per cent), there were only "Yes" slips in his village at the polls. He will not tell you about his cousin in Salonika who was not allowed to return to the village because he was considered dangerous, even though his only political involvement was voting "No" at the same "referendum". But if you sit with him long enough and if you steer the conversation that way, he will tell you with great...