Word: elsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago George Adamson shot a lioness in self-defense. In Born Free, a bestseller of 1960, Author Adamson related how she adopted one of the orphaned cubs, named her Elsa, and raised her in the Adamson house at Isiolo, Kenya. When Elsa reached her full growth, Joy Adamson decided that Elsa should be set free, laboriously taught the house-trained animal to behave like a lioness. Almost beyond question, Joy Adamson was the first human being ever to teach a lion to track down and kill an antelope...
...Elsa. To open the Son Vida in approved International Set style, Rainier invited a task force of names and name droppers and sailed on Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina. Besides his beautiful wife Princess Grace, the guests included the sari-clad Maharani of Baroda, Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper and Partygiver Elsa Maxwell, and, of course, Onassis' great and good friend, Maria Callas. There was some worry about the propriety of Rainier's and Princess Grace's traveling on Onassis' yacht, since Ari and Maria are not married-a condition that Princess Grace, as a good Catholic...
...took a royal pratfall as the bull charged. No press cameras were permitted, but Princess Grace dutifully filmed her husband's moment of truth. "You should see what a terrible stare these beasts give you when you get close to them," confided Rainier breathlessly. At one dinner Elsa got one up on Hedda by taking over the piano to play Cole Porter tunes, accompanied by Rainier on drums. Then Ari bellowed the theme song (in Greek) from the movie Never on Sunday, while La Callas rattled the maracas but declined requests for an aria...
Revenge for Hedda. Next day, Hedda got her revenge when a reporter asked if she had launched more movie stars than Elsa. Snapped Hedda: "The only thing Elsa knows how to launch are boats." The big party reached its climax with a dinner for 125 cosmopolites, at which island dancers and singers performed for the guests and Hedda announced grandly that she would try to land them Hollywood contracts...
...champagne and caviar. For the traditional Fourth of July celebration, able U.S. Ambassador Walter C. Dowling, a careerman, could afford only $287-enough to give 360 visitors a pass at trays of simple canapes and a sip of cheap German sparkling wine. In Leopoldville, where the Belgians established an Elsa Maxwellian standard of party-giving that the Congolese now regard as the norm for diplomatic life, U.S. Ambassador Clare Timberlake must keep up with the Joneses on a budget of $2,000. "I haven't asked for an increase and don't intend to," he says...