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From Cannes on the languorous Riviera came a romantic dispatch from Columnist Elsa Maxwell. She had overheard a conversation between Heiress Barbara Hutton and her new (fourth) husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. Heiress Hutton: "Igor, you are so vague today." Prince Igor: "Naturally, darling, when I am living in a wonderful dream." Crowed happy Columnist Maxwell: "A neat phrase, and he looked as though he meant it." Barbara was going to take Igor to her nest in Tangier, said Miss Maxwell. "Barbara's bathroom looks out on a minaret. Every evening as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...taste), and traveled widely in search of new ideas. Once a year he assembled hotel men and other friends for a gourmet's dinner of California wines, lettuce from irrigated Arizona gardens, and sole flown from the English channel. The Waldorf became an international institution. Princes, ambassadors and Elsa Maxwell filled the suites in its socially topless Towers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: He Knew What They Wanted | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Bird Call. In Hamburg, Germany, Elsa Zawada wandered into the zoo, suddenly heard a voice.calling, "Zawada, Zawada," looked into a cage, saw the parrot she had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...WHITE CHARGER (345 pp.)-Elsa Triolet-Rinehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knighthood Not in Flower | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...Elsa Triolet is the wife of Poet Louis Aragon, one of whose recent volumes was named The Eyes of Elsa. In 1944, she won France's Prix Goncourt with her short stories; but readers are not likely to find her new book a prizewinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knighthood Not in Flower | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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