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...Greece," gushed Elsa Maxwell, "is a poor country but a proud one. When the Queen said that Greece needed tourist business, it suddenly occurred to me that someone should organize a cruise." Suiting the action to the thought, yeasty, 72-year-old Elsa went to work, talked Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos into the loan of the new liner Achilleus, and assembled a likely guest list. The Queen of the Hellenes, who herself went cruising last year on the Achilleus' sister ship Agamemnon (TIME. Sept. 13, 1954), was not invited. "I decided not to have any Greeks," said Elsa...
...flossy Venice hotel, tireless Party-girl Elsa Maxwell, 72, busied herself with last-minute arrangements for an aristocratic cruise, slated to sail from Venice next week to nose about Greece and its islands. On the celebrity-jammed roster of some 120 guests: Scotland's Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, Prince Aly Khan, Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland. Conspicuously uninvited: the Duchess of Windsor, once one of Elsa's best friends, but now (it's mutual) one of her severest critics. To discourage her seagoing party from completely wasting its substance in riotous...
...human afterbirth, which may replace monkey kidneys as the basis of production-line tissue cultures, suggested three University of California researchers. Cells from the inner layer (amnion) of the placenta grow at about the same rate as monkey kidney cells and in the same chemical food baths, reported Elsa M. Zitcer and colleagues. Advantages: less danger of sensitization, and freer supply of placentas, since India is sensitive about continued export of the revered monkeys...
...demeanor that connoted "Genius." They read with fascination that money bored him (once he used a $1,500 check as a bookmark, then lost the book), that he was absent-minded (he once walked into the salon of a transatlantic liner wearing his pajamas), that his second wife, Elsa, once ate the orchids on her plate at a formal banquet, mistaking them for the salad...
...herself, and bringing profit and pleasure to others. Today, for the publicity she brings, a top Paris dressmaker supplies her with 14 dresses a year on the house. She can invite a score of guests to one of the smartest Paris restaurants and the check will be "lost." Elsa has what it takes. At 71, she is still going strong, still feels "like a little girl on Christmas morning," expecting that "something wonderfully exciting is about to happen." Most likely, it will be another party for an awful lot of famous people who will have a wonderful time. Readers...