Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cannes, Aly Khan's secretary mused that his master's coming marriage to Rita Hayworth "will break a lot of hearts. You know how it is. The prince has everything -position, money, looks. The women never let him alone for five minutes, and not only ordinary women, society women, too." The boss's bride-to-be, he had concluded, is "a lovely, simple girl. She's nice in spite of being a movie star, never paints or wears a lot of diamonds...
...playwright who is celebrated for his wit confesses that he feels an odd compulsion to be constantly entertaining in Porter's company: "Suddenly, when he's had enough, you find him staring at you with a kind of loathing and, before you know it, he's not just out of sight, he's out of the room and out of the hotel." London's Producer Charles B. Cochran, who put on a couple of Porter shows, at first was hurt and bewildered by the way Porter would listen to his conversation for a while...
...score. (One of his favorite performers is Ethel Merman, who has played in some of his biggest hits, Anything Goes, Du Barry Was a Lady, Something for the Boys, because, as she puts it, "I can boff out those lines the way he wants them.") New singers know better than to risk trying out for Porter by singing his songs. He insists on at least 28 musicians in his show orchestras (the union minimum for Kate...
...villa on the French Riviera. Robust, 70-year-old Antonin Besse, the man the Standard wanted to reach, was not home, but his secretary was. Was the anonymous donor really Monsieur Besse? "Why, that's a secret," blurted the secretary. "M. Besse doesn't want anyone to know...
Sharks & Risk. The Standard broke the news, and other papers picked it up, but they were still short of details. Not even M. Besse's closest friends seemed to know where he had been born. He had gone to the Middle East as a young man, made most of his money in hides, skins, coffee and the operation of a fleet of merchant ships. It was said he had been born a gypsy, that he owned half the city of Aden, the rocky British colony at the edge of the Red Sea. During the war he had been anti...