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...Little Igor was not all candy. Some called him "the young Rimbaud," and he was taken up by all the "in" people. He married Nijinsky's daughter Kira (they were divorced during the war, and he is now married to an Italian princess). He wrote a cantata on a poem by Jean Cocteau, Hymnes, for orchestra, and a host of other breathlessly energetic works...
Last week in more than 50 Parisian nightclubs, strippers with such names as Rita Cadillac and Kira Tekitoff were joyously peeling. Le cache-sexe, the French word for the irreducible garment - the G-string - was officially listed in the latest edition of the dictionary Larousse, and most importantly, scores of shopgirls and typists were powdering their delicate epidermises to take part in the first qualifying heat of the 1956 International Amateur Striptease Contest...
Dearborn Advice. Just before war came, Lulu married Grand Duchess Kira, one of the last of the Romanovs. Through the war, they lived mostly on the family's East Prussian farm with their growing brood of princes and princesses (there are seven of them now). In 1940, when brother Wilhelm was killed in action in Flanders, Lulu became the Hohenzollern heir in his stead. In 1944 he barely escaped the Russian advance, and almost got nabbed by the Nazis too for knowing a thing or two (not much more) about the bomb plot on Hitler's life...
...line with the feudal principle that boys are superior beings. "At first I was bewildered and frightened," said Reiko Yasuda, a slight, pretty eleventh-grader, "but after I got used to it I found it a challenge to try to keep up with the boys." Another coed, Yoko Kira, added: "Coeducation is very enjoyable...
Born. To Prince Louis Ferdinand, grandson of former Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the former Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, daughter of the late Pretender Cyril: their second son; in Berlin. They honeymooned...