Word: koudacheff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norman Armour (of the Princeton, not the meat-packing Armours) had spent a good part of his 29-year career in trouble spots. As a diplomatic fledgling, he went through the Red Revolution in Leningrad, where he met a Russian princess, Myra Koudacheff, got her safely out of the country, and later married her. In Argentina, from 1939 until his recall, he rode the ups & downs of U.S. prestige like a veteran gaucho. In the years between, he was in Tokyo at the time of the Nanking incident, helped get the U.S. Marines out of Haiti, survived Chile...
...Prince Koudacheff wrote TIME from Nice, France, asking publication of the following notice: "Prince of 500-year-old lineage would accept proposal of fictitious marriage or of adoption." Appended was the Prince's address, but no further explanation, no first name...
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