Word: loiewski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Igor ("Ghighi") Loiewski-Cassini, 33, chichi Hearst chitchatterer ("Cholly Knickerbocker"), and second wife Elizabeth Darrah Waters Loiewski-Cassini, 21, blonde ex-model: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Marina. Weight...
Married. Igor ("Ghighi") Loiewski-Cassini, 32, squealy Hearst chitchatterer ("Cholly Knickerbocker"); and Elizabeth Darrah Waters, 20, stately blonde ex-model; he for the second time (his first was Washington Times-Herald Chitchatterer Austine "Bootsie" McDonnell), she for the first; in Sea Cliff...
Slender, kinky-haired Igor Loiewski-Cassini, who is a grandson of a Russian count, hit Manhattan last fall like a ton of marshmallows. He signed on as "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American society page, and set his sights high. What he wanted, he said, was syndication-first national, then global. He put out a highly readable, often unbearable column full of cream-puff crises and chichi. Sometimes, to angle it down Hearst's alley, he sternly lectured his readers on why broiled squab and Valentina gowns were Worth Fighting...
...role as Hearst's "Cholly Knickerbocker," pompadoured Society Gossip Igor Loiewski-Cassini (TIME, Nov. 5) last week started a series of profiles on New York social registerites. To prepare himself, he boned up on the Astor clan by reading Dixon Wecter's scholarly Saga of American Society. When it came time to share his new-found knowledge with his readers, Gossip Cassini found himself full of his reading. Samples...
Anything can still happen in America. Less than ten years ago, slight, pompadoured little Igor Loiewski-Cassini landed in the U.S. with only $10, a hint of a titled past, and a lean & hungry look. By last week, at 30, as the new "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American, he had reached the peak in his peculiar field...