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Word: mdivanis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left, somewhere along the Champs Elysées, by Nina Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of Sherlock Holmes's creator: a jeweled brooch, shaped like a hand, with rubies on the fingernails and a sprinkling of diamond stars and emeralds. Nina-who used to be Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani-advertised her loss in the papers and let it go at that. "Even Sherlock Holmes would have told the police in such a case," mumbled Paris' police chief. "His daughter-in-law had better consult us if she wants her brooch back." (In 1935 Nina dropped $8,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ups & Downs | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Married. Louise Van Alen Mdivani, 37, Astor heiress; and Alexander Saunderson, 29, London lawyer; she for the third time (her first and second husbands were both "Marrying Mdivanis"), he for the first; in Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Mutton (first husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani; second, Count Court Haugwitz-Revent-low; third, Cinemactor Gary Grant) was back at the marriage-license bureau with another prince. Sharing the Swiss vistas with her in St. Moritz: tall, blond Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, leading candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Prince Alexis Mdivani, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, Gary Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Barbara Hutton, whose first was Prince Alexis Mdivani, whose second was Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and whose third was Gary Grant, swore rather faintly that she was swearing off. The wheat-blond, Ry-Krisp-thin dime-store heiress told the Hearst press: "I'm not going to get married again as long as I live. I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Backslaps | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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