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...Dame Judi Dench walks among the crowd with a relaxed, regal air, like a benign dowager duchess bestowing air kisses and greetings to old friends. She'd appeared in skits the previous year, and so was enjoying her night...
...Duchess Anna was the first hostess in England to invite her friends over for afternoon tea. Her idea evolved into the British tradition. And in 1930, when Lowell House opened under Master Julian Lowell Coolidge, that tradition came to Harvard...
Before Lowell House Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin, there was the Duchess of Bedford...
...bracing for another January campaign to stampede us all toward the scales. The Jenny Craig weight-reduction program has just launched a series of commercials featuring Monica Lewinsky. They compete with an already existing Weight Watchers campaign that features Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Weight-reduction programs seem to use only female spokescelebrities, although it presumably wouldn't be that difficult to find a male who is famous, out of work, in need of a little slimming and known for yielding to temptation now and then even in nonalimentary matters. Helmut Kohl comes to mind. In the "before" shots, Chancellor...
This "fairy tale" disintegrated into a cafe-society postscript. Living in exile in France, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, as they were officially styled, benefited from air fares and hotel suites paid for by nouveau riche hosts. They decorated the best nightclubs, the Duke always looking a bit bewildered. (There is a photo of them at El Morocco wearing matching paper crowns.) When the Duke died in 1972, he left Wallis 3 million [pounds] and a small tribe of pugs. She lived into a sad senility...