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...sisters Cateau and Magdelon de la Louppe were born in the early 16305. They were among the most beautiful women in Europe. Starting as down-at-heel petty noblewomen, both made brilliant marriages, both took many lovers, both were involved in flamboyant scandals, both faded into lonely piety, and both lived, voraciously, to be 80. Aside from these parallels, their lives differed as sharply as their characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tale of Two Sisters | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...Open recruiting for the Nazi Party has brought into camp Swedish Army and Navy officers, judges, university students, many noblemen and noblewomen, Explorer Sven Hedin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Price of Neutrality | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...three daughters of a druggist in Silver Bow, Mont., Louise was most beautiful, Grace most domestic, Helen most electric. Louise was one of nature's noblewomen and great things were expected of her, so when she eloped with a hard-drinking sports writer, Silver Bow was shocked. After many an up & down, Louise's husband left her, shipped as a sailor the night before the San Francisco earthquake. The shock and the quake combined gave Louise brain fever. A friendly floozy took her in, and she recuperated in a bawdy house. Then she married a rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1904 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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