Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Count Charles de Chambrun, 77, U.S.-born great-great-grandson of Lafayette (and thus an honorary U.S. citizen), longtime (1901-36) French career diplomat; of a kidney disease; in Paris. As Ambassador to Rome during the '30s, he became a great friend of Mussolini, tried to keep Italy from joining the Axis. In 1937 he was plunged into a diplomatic scandal when, as he was about to board a train at Paris' Gare du Nord, he was shot in the groin by a French journalist named Madeleine de Fontanges, who claimed that he had ruined her romance...
...wedding of 18-year-old Raimonda Ciano to Alessandro Giunta, a great-great-great-grandson of Napoleon's brother, Lucien Bonaparte, in St. Mark's Basilica, Rome, a photographer concentrated on the bride's family and produced a memorable portrait of three tense, dry-eyed, well-dressed widows: the bride's mother, Edda Mussolini Ciano, who stood in an old II Duce pose, arms folded and jaw outjutting: the bride's two grandmothers, Rachele Mussolini and Carolina Ciano...
Steamboat smiles and worries through three generations of Batchelor loves & sorrows, business ups & downs. By the time grandson Larry gets Cindy Lou, both Steamboat Gothic architecture and Steamboat Gothic ideas are beginning to crumble. The mistress of Cindy Lou is now Louise, whom Larry brought back from France after World War I. They already have a son and two daughters who could quite easily touch off a sequel. The fresh scene has already been set: oil is struck on Cindy Lou, and the old gothic pile itself has been turned into the Clyde Batchelor Community Center...
Married. Raimonda Ciano, 18, only daughter of Edda Mussolini Ciano and the late Count Galeazzo Ciano, granddaughter of 11 Duce; and Alessandro Giunta, 23, great-great-great-grandson of Napoleon's brother, Lucien Bonaparte; in Rome...
...forked radish with a head fantastically carved." The last German who ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result, have faced the necessity of sinking their roots in the radish patch of common humanity. In The Rebel Prince, his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert Hohenzollern ("Lulu" to the family), says it was a hard fight but he made...