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...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 right away, but we decided to wait a few years before getting married." Chimed in the baroness: "I ought to have married him then." After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...society." Told not to apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept the decision as gracefully as possible." Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton and German Tennis Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm, her "dearest friend for years" (notably since her 1951 divorce from her fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy), were together again on the Riviera, giving weight to stories that their oft-rumored marriage was finally about to come off. Von Cramm's mother, in fact, had reportedly bustled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Hemisphere, may 25, 1953 | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

Barbara Mutton left Paris for Cologne, Germany to spend her 39th birthday visiting her old friend, aging (42) German tennis ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm. Could this be a romance? asked friends. Babs left them dangling. Rumors of an engagement with Von Cramm are "perfectly ridiculous," she said. "I have been married four times, and I don't feel young enough to become engaged again." But, she added with womanly logic, "this does not mean that I will not marry again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...known as "Brooklyn's No.1 Baseball Fan," promised to mediate. Said he: "I'm 100% for unions, but these people are not musicians. [Their] loss would rob Brooklyn fans of one of the most important emotional experiences they can have." ¶ West Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, 42, still playing the sweeping all-court game that made him a prewar Wimbledon finalist three years running, carried his team into the finals of the European Davis Cup championships with victories over Yugoslavia, Denmark, Belgium and Italy. Last week, in Bastad, Sweden, Von Cramm got his comeuppance. Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Losers | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...Wimbledon last week, it was beginning to look like the year of the crocodile. Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, no crocodile but still a masterly all-court player at 42, could even now take the starch out of youngsters who could hardly lift a racket in the days when Von Cramm was a Wimbledon finalist three years running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wide Open Wimbledon | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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