Word: mendl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stomach and turn pale (e.g., "I wonder," says Barbara, "if Christ came to earth, could he get a table at Twenty-One?"). Moreover, Poppy's critical eye, which was always whimsically weak, is now rolling toward astigmatism. "It never occurred to me," he groans of Lady Elsie Mendl, ". . . that she, poor darling, was relatively destitute. She left a million . . . but it's peanuts, considering her fashion of living, her travels . . . artisans . . . servants . . . hospitality." Too many cosmopolitan sleeping pills, perhaps; but Bemelmania, while still fun, is not nearly as wonderfully crazy as it used...
...days later, still in grief, the Sultan met Marcella Mendl. She was a tall, reddish-blonde Rumanian who spoke five languages, and it was a case of love at first sight. The warring British at that moment were too busy to comment on his marriage to Marcella, and the couple lived peacefully in Pasir Plangie Palace through the Japanese occupation. It was not until 1951, when the Sultan was preoccupied with his year-old child and also beginning to feel his 79 years, that the British went even further to displease...
...Charles Mendl, 80, one of the last of the sabled international set, received a belated bequest from the late Albert Lasker, philanthropist and Manhattan adman: $5,000 and a box of 100 monarch-sized Havana cigars. Said Sir Charles, grateful but slightly puzzled: "All I ever did for Lasker was to get him rooms at another hotel when the [Paris] Ritz was full-up during the tourist season...
...invited to the Italian embassy for a little ceremony. For her work in helping orphans and sending relief packages to Italy, Ambassador Pietro Quaroni pinned the Order of the Republic on her lapel and gave her a diplomatic buss. Whereupon a member of the audience, honeymooning Sir Charles Mendl, 79, did the same. Said he: "I always kiss Mary every time I see her; been doing it for 25 years...
Married. Sir Charles Mendl, 80, onetime British diplomatic press attache and widower of the U.S.-born international society hostess, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl; and Mme. Yvonne Riley, 37, Belgian-born violinist; he for the second time, she for the third; in Paris...