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Catherine Deneuve smiles for Chanel, Margaux Hemingway for Babe, and Victoria Fyodorova for Alexandra de Markoff. For the Paris house of Nina Ricci, it's Andréa de Portago. Andréa Who? Not exactly a household name, Andréa, 26, is an aspiring New York actress and the daughter of the 17th Marquis de Portago, the flamboyant Spanish Grand Prix driver killed in 1957 in Italy's Mille Miglia. While doing the disco scene one night at Manhattan's Régine's, she was spotted by Nina Ricci representatives. They excitedly hired...
...another high-priced face. Victoria Fyodorova, the Soviet actress who came to the U.S. in 1975 in search of her long-lost American father, retired Rear Admiral Jack Tate, and soon married an airline pilot, has signed a five-year contract to advertise cosmetics put out by Alexandra de Markoff, a division of Lanvin. The company reckoned that her name and chiseled cheekbones fit the de Markoff image. Victoria, who has caught on i quickly to the ways of the consumer society, claims a lifelong interest in cosmetics. "As a child, I would make up my dolls, but they always...
Another penalty flag fluttered through the air shortly thereafter, and the ball wound up on the Bruin 13-yard line after a 15-yard markoff for defensive holding...
...robbers moved out of the bank, one of them-police believe it was DeFreeze-theatrically and unnecessarily opened fire through the bank's glass door. The bullets hit two men passing by outside, Peter Markoff, 59, and Eugene Brennan, 70, and both received severe stomach wounds. Once outside the bank, DeFreeze fired again, at Pharmacist Ken Outlander, 62, but missed. The bandits raced away in the station wagon, their escape covered by the four accomplices in the Hornet. Police and FBI agents could not identify the four people?either four men or three men and a woman?but believed that...
...American World Airways plane crash near Lisbon in 1943 all but ended the big-time careers of throaty Singer Jane (With a Song in My Heart) Froman and Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, both bound overseas to entertain troops. It was five years before Jane could walk again without crutches (she still wears an iron brace on one leg). By gritty determination Gypsy made her crippled left hand play an accordion again, never completely regained her former skill. So far, in compensation for physical injuries, each entertainer has collected from Pan Am a piddling $8,300-maximum allowable damages, under...