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...Radio Actress Ilka Chase's Past Imperfect. Word had gone forth that this hodgepodge personal history is as broad as it is high, and generously peppered with peephole patter about everybody from the late William Alexander Percy (Lanterns on the Levee) to café society's Lady Mendl and Hollywood's George Cukor...
...rich in iodine. This influences their thyroids, in some mysterious manner keeps their hair from turning grey. By giving a 70-year-old woman vitamin B complex, Hauser claimed to have turned her white hair black. (In the audience last week was his 84-year-old sponsor Lady Mendl-Decorator Elsie de Wolfe-whose hair, once blue, is snow white.) Worry, said Hauser, also turns hair grey "by destroying the adrenal glands...
...year-old head of the Carnegie Institute, who offered a million dollars last year for the abduction of Hitler, returned his Legion of Honor ribbon to France, explained to Marshal Henri Petain: ". . . Under your recreant Government it has lost its value." ∙∙ Eighty-four-year-old Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe) had a Cellophane window put in her glove so as not to hide her diamond wrist watch...
...entered from Mexico under German and South African quotas, looked forward to U.S. citizenship. Meantime, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the World's Christian Fundamentals Association plumped for the revocation of the citizenship of Albert Einstein, 62, on the ground that he is an atheist, and in Manhattan, Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe), 84, awaited Congressional action on a bill that would restore the citizenship she renounced on her marriage to Sir Charles Mendl...
...attaché, Captain Charles Emmanuel Brousse, bomber-squadron commander in World War I, and his longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt (who helped...