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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 »

Married. Louise Van Alen Mdivani, 37, Astor heiress; and Alexander Saunderson, 29, London lawyer; she for the third time (her first and second husbands were both "Marrying Mdivanis"), he for the first; in Newport...

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

...engaged slinky Li Lihua, one of China's leading actresses, who gets $70 million CN a picture (U.S. $1,400). Li Lihua's role was that of a widow, down to her last dress. She advertises for a husband and gives the impression that she is an heiress. The villain, a wealthy Chinese, reads the ad while in a barber's chair. Fearing his own wife's reactions if he answers it, he persuades the handsome barber to pretend that he is the tycoon, marry the girl, split the profits later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Razor's Edge | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Scene of the hunt for 20-year-old heiress Anne Straw, missing from her Holderness, N. H., country home for ten days, switched from the bottom of Squam Lake yesterday to here in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straw Heiress Spotted 'Outside a Dormitory' Here, Report Indicates | 8/1/1947 | See Source »

Born. To Ruth Elizabeth ("Bazy") McCormick Miller, 26, favorite niece of Uncle Robert McCormick and heiress apparent to his Chicago Tribune empire; and Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., 28: their second child, first son; in Chicago. Name: Mark McCormick (for her maternal grandfather, the late Mark Hanna). Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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