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...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...
...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...
...social rounds last week, Reporter Elsa Maxwell buttonholed 61-year-old Divorcé Adlai Stevenson, bluntly asked why he had never remarried. The U.N. Ambassador explained that it was because he could never understand women. "Must you understand a woman to marry her?" wondered Elsa. "Either that," confided Adlai, "or she must understand me. But do women ever understand...
...Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May, apostolic descendant of Mrs. Stotesbury, presided at the Red Cross benefit dance, doing her best to be the Great Galvanizer of a diversifying society. Elsa Maxwell was in town, collecting tidbits, people and invitations. Actress Arlene Dahl, new wife of Rancher-Oilman Christian Holmes, admitted that she was having a fine time trying the supposedly impossible: a walk on the tightrope between cafe society and "real" society...
...Died. Elsa, 5, 300-lb. lioness-companion of Mrs. Joy Adamson, a Kenya game warden's wife who recounted her pet's half-domesticated, half-savage career in Born Free, one of 1960's top bestsellers; of undetermined natural causes; in the Kenya jungle. Taken in by Mrs. Adamson as an orphaned cub, Elsa slept, ate and played with the Adamsons for three happy years until they reluctantly returned her to jungle freedom, from which she would re-emerge periodically to show off to them her own three cubs...