Word: daughter-in-law
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Left, somewhere along the Champs Elysées, by Nina Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of Sherlock Holmes's creator: a jeweled brooch, shaped like a hand, with rubies on the fingernails and a sprinkling of diamond stars and emeralds. Nina-who used to be Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani-advertised her loss in the papers and let it go at that. "Even Sherlock Holmes would have told the police in such a case," mumbled Paris' police chief. "His daughter-in-law had better consult us if she wants her brooch back." (In 1935 Nina dropped $8,000 worth...
...group" is diplomatic double-talk for attractive, 20-year-old Lidiya Leisina, U.S.S.R. citizen. Last year she married Alvaro Cruz, son of Chilean Ambassador Luiz Cruz Ocampo. Ten months ago, Ambassador Cruz told President Gonzalez Videla that he was resigning, but he stayed on, trying to get his daughter-in-law out of Russia. Holding to its standard position toward Soviet women married to foreigners (TIME, April 21), Russia refused to let her go. At week's end Russia was still saying no, Lidiya was still in Moscow, Hostage Zhukov still in Santiago...
...terribly good at this sort of thing) mounted a chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven guineas. Blonde Princess Ali Khan, the Aga Khan's daughter-in-law, did better at a reported 15 guineas. Randolph Churchill, who could not stay late because he had to dash off to a regimental dinner, bought up several girls and later disposed of them at a profit-which, of course, went to charity too. One of his transactions involved 27-year...
Plangomeur was built by a buccaneer named La Hourie. Of all the pirate's heirs, only two women are left: fat, half-mad old Lucie La Hourie and her daughter-in-law Françoise...
...late Herbert George Wells's will left the bulk of his estate-some $240,000 before taxes-to his two sons, a daughter-in-law, and Baroness Budberg, whom the will described as "my very dear friend." Father Wells took time out to express his "loving recognition of the good and sane behavior of all my offspring toward...