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...Jerome, Napoleon's youngest brother, a pretty-faced punk known as Fifi, was the black sheep of the family. At 21, when Napoleon balked at his marriage to a Baltimore heiress named Betsy Patterson, he blithely abandoned the girl-with child-and concluded an alliance with Catherine of Wurttemberg. As King of Westphalia, he employed so many mistresses and staged such lavish entertainments (among them an operetta performed stark naked) that the kingdom went bankrupt within seven years. In 1812 he deserted his troops in Russia, and in 1840 he sold his 20-year-old daughter for several million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Corsican Mafia | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...decided that, as usual, the critics were wrong. A studio flack perhaps came closer to the truth of the matter when he said: "The face of an eight-year-old girl, the body of a voluptuous woman. It's practically perverse. She's the poor little match girl-with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...RUSE OF THE VANISHED WOMEN- Val Gielgud-Crime Club ($2). Two branches of the Secret Service, Scotland Yard, and the well-meaning amateur skip about England and France, seeking a kidnapped girl-with many hidden intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Murders of the Month: Jul. 2, 1934 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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