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...biggest independent shipowner. The legend of Niarchos, fondly referred to in the world's press as the "Golden Greek," is a blurred montage of shipboard launching parties, at which he bestows diamond bracelets and gold Faberge cigarette boxes on the beautiful and highborn women (e.g., the Duchess of Kent) who christen his ships, repartee in the royal enclosure at Ascot, champagne flowing like home brut in the nightclubs of London and Paris. Unlike most legends, it is woven from whole fact...
...team will be honored at two special Balls in Paris and London by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Winthrop Aldrich '07, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Married. Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg, 33. blonde elder daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte; and Prince Franz Ferdinand von Hohenberg, 28, grandson of Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, touched off World War I; in Luxembourg...
...major and minor old masters at an average price of only $4,000. Result: a sampling of eight main schools of Western painting, ranging from Balthazar Van der Ast to Francisco de Zurbaran and including Rubens' Holy Family with Saint Anne, Van Dyck's Duchess of Lennox, Murillo's Esau Selling His Birthright...
...into Le Pavilion and was rushed to a low-rated corner table obscured by potted palms. Denying that he was ever so unkind to his landlord, Soule nonetheless allowed that his top table priorities are based on his patrons' seniority. Among his best-seated customers: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Composer Cole Porter, Grandma Marlene Dietrich, Bernard Baruch, J. Edgar Hoover. Where did Landlord Cohn rank in this spectacular array? Said humble Tenant Soule: "He is always welcome. I smiled and joked with him. Why should an important Hollywood person think a little restaurateur wouldn't talk...