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...syndicated column gave her a new leverage in the publicity-oriented world of the jet-setters, and Elsa knew how to use it. In print she staged a schoolgirl crush over the late Aly Khan and an insult-fest with Opera Star Maria Callas. When she suddenly turned into a devout Callas admirer, gossipmongers inevitably asked each other in what language Callas' husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, had talked to Elsa. Maxwell readers also thrilled to a three-year feud with the Duchess of Windsor, which had its well-publicized happy ending aboard the United States on Easter Sunday...
...Celebrity Anyhow. Elsa, whose face in repose was sometimes a touching contrast to the roly-poly jollity that was her public trademark, made as much copy out of her unsexiness as Zsa Zsa Gabor makes out of her libido. "Crawling out of bed, I girdled myself," she would write, "with the aid of a block and tackle." Or, "I've been favorably compared to a whale, a pachyderm, a hippopotamus, an untidy featherbed, an Eskimo igloo during the summer thaw, a charwoman at daybreak. Prince Christian of Hesse, spotting me in bathing costume offshore at Antibes, mistook...
Down with Boredom. Elsa was a great matchmaker; she claimed credit, among others, for getting together Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan. But that kind of love was not for her. Once when she was a girl, a young man (named Baron Alexander von Schroeder) kissed her on the mouth. "It's difficult to describe the feeling of revulsion that swept over me," she reported. As she discovered later: "I never liked the idea of sex. I wouldn't subject myself to it." In the numerous costume parties she attended, she often came...
...Elsa Maxwell could not live without friends: "All I want is love from the world, and that is what I give it." Or enemies: "I go hell-for-leather. People are terrified of me. I can say anything. Isn't that dreadful? I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate...
...Died. Elsa Maxwell, 80, party giver to high society; of heart disease; in Manhattan (see MODERN LIVING...