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Princess Gladys de Polignac of France's famed champagne family, Pommery (she married into it; her American mother married Le Petit Parisien's publisher), arrived in the U.S. on a Red Cross hunt for dental supplies, posed with a cluster of store teeth that was something new in costume jewelry. Item on her shopping list: four million false teeth...
...Marquise de Polignac, onetime Manhattan Socialite Nina Crosby, since 1917 wife of the master of France's great champagne house (Pommery), was jailed in Paris as an alleged collaborationist. To comfort her in her confinement, she had an air mattress on her bed, stores of cosmetics, plenty of clothes. She said she had driven an ambulance before the Nazis came, denied that she had been a collaborator, claimed to have won seven prisoners their freedom through her German embassy acquaintances...
British warships from Alexandria took another point-blank crack at Marshal Graziani's expeditionary base at Bardia. During the week, the Italians claimed extension of their drive into Kenya Colony to include Fort Polignac on Lake Rudolf in the north and Buna, a British air base 60 miles south of Moyale, one of the preliminary keys to the capture of Nairobi. The British retorted with a satisfying raid by the South African Air Force, which swooped on Mogadiscio, main port of Italian Somaliland, and blasted "hundreds" of military trucks assembled there for the Kenya push...
Quintet (Sat. 12 noon, NBC-Red) for Piano and Strings by Armande de Polignac, Comtesse de Chabannes, played by the Brenner Piano Quintet...
Mile, Nadia Boulanger will conduct this concert, made up of nine rarely-heard compositions. Soloists, all drawn from Mile. Boulanger's own company, will be: Mme. Giselle Peyron, Mme. la Comtesse Jean de Polignac, Mme. Irone Kedroff, Mme. Nathale Kedroff, Hugues Cuened, and Doda Conrad...