Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turns out, is something more than a literary curiosity. It is only half as long as the Alice everybody knows; the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, Father William and the Queen of Hearts are all there, but the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, the Cheshire Cat and the Ugly Duchess are still swimming undiscovered in Dodgson's inkwell. The earlier Alice, however, is much more than half as interesting; though it lacks the rococo richness of the final version, it has a primitive charm and artless appeal that make it, on the whole, rather the better...
...meaning to show off a bit-explained French Perfume Queen Hélène Rochas after her My Fair Lady ball in the Bois de Boulogne. A bit! Mme. Rochas herself wore $250,000 worth of diamonds to decorate her egret-plumed Guy Laroche gown. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Begum Aga Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford and all the other jet-set guests showed up in ascots, ostrich feathers and grey top hats. "There was not an egret plume or a false moustache to be had in Paris that evening," purred Mme. Rochas happily...
...LAST GRAND DUCHESS by Ian Vorres. 264 pages. Scr/bner...
...Turin Academy of Medicine. By way of thanks, he will demonstrate some of his operations. There will also be trips to Brussels to see Marie Liliane, Princess de Réthy, for whose charitable organization DeBakey operates on many Belgian children, and to Paris to see the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Later come a week in Israel and a busman's holiday in Athens, with DeBakey demonstrating surgery while a guest of Queen Mother Frederika...
...frug"), and Bobby Kennedy and Ethel ("I can't believe all that action on such a small floor")?make the discotheque scene. Jackie Kennedy, on her occasional visits to Il Mio, does a sedate version of the frug. Adlai Stevenson, the Maharani of Baroda, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor have not progressed much beyond the twist, but Walter Cronkite's variations on the frug are a wonder to behold...