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...Hermann Oelrichs was no exception. His wife, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, began the building of Rosecliff when there were already some mighty mansions to surpass. Stanford White designed the house; Augustus Saint Gaudens built the outer court, patterned after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. There she gave her most famous party, the Bal Blanc, arranged by Ward McAllister, attended by the 400, and costing Mr. Oelrichs $30,000. Into Rosecliff she packed what Henry James called the "loot" of Europe: Gobelin tapestries, cloisonné vases, Renaissance statuary, Jacobean furniture, Sèvres china, paintings, libraries, silver sets, visiting aristocrats...
Hitler and his aides had thought it unthinkable that Germany should ever be scarred by enemy attack. Hermann Göring promised on Aug. 9, 1939: "As Reich Minister for Air, I have convinced myself personally of the measures taken to protect the Ruhr against air attack. In future I will look after every battery, for we will not expose the Ruhr to a single bomb dropped by enemy aircraft." Every night last week 80 tons of bombs were dropped on the Ruhr...
Next day at mid-afternoon Franklin Roosevelt sent his message to Congress, transmitting a note from Hermann Jonasson, Prime Minister of Iceland, and his reply. He told the Congress...
...Skoropadsky, 67, of Berlin, an amiable old schemer who was Germany's Ukrainian puppet in 1918 (TIME, June 30). Since his brief puppet leadership ended with Germany's World War I defeat he has lived on a German pension. His chief sponsor today is said to be Hermann Göring. Finagling old Pavlo Skoropadsky is not too popular with the Nazis' Russian-Ukrainian expert Alfred Rosenberg, a smart man, nor with many Ukrainians who think him stupid...
...right indoors. Mrs. Herbert Shipman, widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, is offering to any hotelman who can pay for it the sprawling Cliff Walk estate built by her late, famed father, Edson Bradley. Furnishings of fabulous Rosecliff, $2,500,000 estate of the late Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, will be auctioned on Bastille Day. Reported hungry for the house and grounds are the Navy and the United Service Organizations. Princess Miguel (Anita Stewart) de Braganza plans to auction off household effects that include a Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait. In brief, what with death and taxes...