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...ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights with men and proclaimed herself a candidate for the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: As Maine Goes ... | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...your picture of Charles II's mistress, Nell Gwynn, you boys can't even tell Nell from Louise de Kèroualle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1960 | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...Reader Mewhinney is not the first to confuse Nell with Louise, who served as the King's Catholic mistress. When an anti-Catholic mob in Oxford mistook Nell for her unpopular rival, the plain-speaking actress stuck her head out the carriage window and said, "Pray, good people, be civil; I am the Protestant whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1960 | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...drawer in the Casa de la Vail. Next day the cupboard was bare. Also missing was Ramon Riberaygua, 36, scion of a leading family and secretary of the Council of the Valleys, who on frequent visits to Spain had developed an un-Andorran taste for luxury. He kept a mistress in Barcelona and enjoyed paying big tips at the Hotel Ritz to have himself paged when the dining room was full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: Prodigal Returns | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...turn, leaves her at the altar. Mr. Weedin, the personnel manager, looks into Dougal's bewitched eyes and at "the alarming bones of his hands" and suffers a nervous breakdown. Mr. Druce himself, suspecting that Dougal is a police informer in alliance with Merle Coverdale, kills his mistress by stabbing her nine times with a corkscrew. Dougal at about that time flees Peckham Rye for Africa, where he makes a living selling portable tape recorders to witch doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Devil Called Douglas | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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