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With his eye fixed on Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabon, whom he has gallantly promised to marry, Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa dispatched two lawyers to the Mexican divorce mill at Cuernavaca. Their legal mission: to find out if Rubirosa's estranged fourth wife, Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton, was entitled, during a recent fling in Cuernavaca, to call herself Princess Troubetzkoy. Rubirosa's likely ploy: if Babs is still billing herself as a princess, then maybe her 1951 Cuernavacan divorce from her fourth husband, Lithuanian Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, was no good − and Rubirosa 's marriage...
...Sister! do not rouse my wrath, I'd make you into mutton broth As easily as kill a moth...
Gigot de la Clinique. A surgeon living in the provinces, as fond of good cheer as he was learned, invented this recipe, which we acquired by bribing his cook. No leg of venison can compare with a simple leg of mutton prepared in the following manner. Eight days in advance you will cover the leg of mutton with the marinade called Baume Samaritain, composed of wine-old Burgundy, Beaune or Chambertin-and virgin olive oil. Into this balm, to which you have already added the usual condiments of salt, pepper, bay leaf, thyme, beside an atom of ginger root...
...Dodsworth) Mate's direction is firm and businesslike. Best bit is are working of a famed Charles Laughton scene in Henry VIII, a demonstration of medieval good manners ("the little things that distinguish the gentleman''; in which Actor Torin Thatcher daintily raises a whole haunch of mutton to his lips, graciously gnaws at it for awhile, then flings it airily over his shoulder-the left shoulder, that is-to the floor...
...Manhattan hotel suite where she began a honeymoon with her fifth husband, Dominican Diplomat-Playboy Porfirio ("Rubi") Rubirosa, five & dime Heiress Barbara Mutton tumbled and broke her left ankle. At her side, bearing up nobly, Rubi was consoled a bit on hearing that the Dominican Republic had reinstalled him at his Paris diplomatic post, which had been yanked out from under him last month. To cheer Porfirio further, the Custom Tailors Guild of America announced that he had beaten out President Eisenhower in a poll of its members to choose America's best-dressed man. Said a Guild official...