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...most debated railroad tycoon of his day. As board chairman of the New York Central, the nation's second biggest railroad, and an important voice in several other roads, Bob Young had collected all the prizes of a champion battler: wealth, power, glittering friends (the Duke and Duchess of Windsor et al.), palatial homes in Palm Beach and Newport...
...some regulars among the world's most chic, it also cited several newcomers to the derby. Luxuriating in her No. 1 spot for the fifth year in a row was Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of CBS's board chairman, closely trailed by two other perennials, the Duchess of Windsor and supersocial Mrs. Winston Guest. Soon after them came the year's big surprise: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, making her first appearance in the best-dressed list and more than outdistancing her unmentioned sister, Princess Margaret (tied for No. 9 last year). Among other women...
...Catholic canon law and native customs on marriage; he is currently investigating the native custom of pouring libations on important occasions (English gin, schnapps or potent akpeteshie, illicitly distilled from palm juice). There has been considerable church controversy over this practice; church leaders boycotted a welcome ceremony to the Duchess of Kent during Ghana's recent Independence Day celebration because a libation was poured. "We educated people do not yet know what a villager understands when he pours a libation," he says. "Until we do, we cannot decide whether it is good...
Bequest to Venice. Now 59, with her hair died raven black and fingernails painted silver, Peggy Guggenheim is a flamboyant yet somehow regal character, whom Venetians call "L'Ultima Dogaressa" (The Last Duchess). Gondoliers have made a fortune ferrying her guests and visitors (Peggy herself travels in her own private gondola or fast speedboat), who come to sit on her zebra-striped couches, gaze at the display of modern paintings, constructions and sculptures. Infectiously gay and gossipy, Peggy Guggenheim has made her palazzo not only one of Venice's institutions but a crossroads of the artistic world...
...Playwright Charles MacArthur died (their daughter Mary died of polio in 1949), Helen told reporters that she was thinking of retiring. But after reading Time Remembered, she changed her mind. She threw herself into rehearsals with her old-time energy, got a special insight on how to play the Duchess while listening to a recital on a virginal (a 17th century harpsichord). "Suddenly it hit me," she says. "I'd been playing the old Duchess like pounding a bass drum. But she was like that music-dainty, airy, tinkling...