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...France, one of playboy Prince Aly Khan's legal eagles allowed that His Highness will soon take a third wife, top Parisian Mannequin Simone Bodin, 30, renowned as Bettina in the fashion world...
Married. Gregory Peck, 40, lanky, Lincolnesque cinemactor (Roman Holiday); and Veronique Passani, 22, half-Russian, half-Corsican Parisian newshen; 19 hours after his twelve-year-old marriage (three children) finally ended in divorce; in Lompoc, Calif...
Died. Mistinguett, nee Jeanne Bourgeois, 82, French musicomedienne; in Bougival, a suburb of Paris. With her foghorn voice, perky Parisian personality and famed legs ("les plus belles jambes de France," allegedly insured for $3 million), "Mees" rose from flower girl to become the most luminous star of the French music hall of her time. The peak of her long career came early in the century when she played at the Folies-Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, made famous the song Mon Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with...
Last week in more than 50 Parisian nightclubs, strippers with such names as Rita Cadillac and Kira Tekitoff were joyously peeling. Le cache-sexe, the French word for the irreducible garment - the G-string - was officially listed in the latest edition of the dictionary Larousse, and most importantly, scores of shopgirls and typists were powdering their delicate epidermises to take part in the first qualifying heat of the 1956 International Amateur Striptease Contest...
Gauguin, selling his paintings to pay the passage, turned his proud-beaked head toward Tahiti and the unknown future. Toulouse-Lautrec, grown famous for his paintings peopled with characters from Parisian cafés and brothels, remained a staunch defender of Van Gogh until his own death eleven years later...