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...Tiflis, few miles from the birthplace of Stalin, in the Georgian Socialist Soviet Republic, at least 20 more "spies and wreckers" were "completely destroyed" last week for aiming "at the establishment of an independent republic under the protection of a certain capitalistic power." Among those shot was Budu Mdivani, once reported to be a brother of the Marrying Mdivanis (score: Pola Negri, Mary McCormic, Louise Astor van Alen, Barbara Hutton) but disowned as such by curly-haired Prince David Mdivani (Mae Murray). During last January's treason trial Budu Mdivani's name was mentioned in connection with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Spies and Wreckers | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Arriving in Manhattan with his wife, the former Princess Nina Mdivani, Spiritualist Denis Conan Doyle confided to Manhattan newshawks that he was in constant communication with his late father, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Said he: "My father has never failed to advise me on my personal and business relations. Not once since he died six years ago has he advised me wrong. The only time I did not follow his instructions I was nearly killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1937 | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Married. Mary McCormic, 37, opera singer, onetime wife of the late Prince Serge Mdivani; and Chicago Lawyer Homer V. Johannsen, 35; in Kansas City, Mo. Few hours later, clad in blue satin lounging pajamas, she revealed the news at an Excelsior Springs, Mo. hotel, gaily introduced "Mr. McCormic," her fourth, who had proposed to her only that morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Married. Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle, spiritualist son of the late Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and Mrs. Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced last May from Manhattan Lawyer Charles Henry Huberich; in Bridgend, Wales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...newspapers with proletarian audiences screeched at Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow when the Paris-Midi reported that she had paid Singer Ganna Walska $1,200,000 for a collection of emeralds which Napoleon III once gave to his mistress, the Contessa di Castiglione. Next day the reported purchase was denied, and in the U. S. arrived first pictures of the christening in London of Countess Barbara's burly three-month son Lance. Held up for photographers at the door of Marlborough House Chapel, gurgling Baby Lance showed less resemblance to his sleek parents than to his chubby grandfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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