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Right & Left. When she was the wife of Lord Shane O'Neill, she would scarcely have been interested. She was busy making the rounds of English country houses, romping on the Riviera, sampling the Paris styles and setting a few herself. Ann O'Neill had a mind of her own, and sometimes it got her into trouble. "I thrive," she told friends, "on my antagonisms...
Gone Was the Glamor. But the roulette wheels were still spinning. Monaco had remained an oasis of pleasurable chance in Europe's desert of desperate chances. The wheels were spinning now. True, for U.S. soldiers redeploying from the Riviera, Monte Carlo was out of bounds. True, there were no Britons, Germans, Russians, Italians or Latin Americans, no glittering titles, no lavish profligates. Gambling's heroic days were gone: the days when the Princess Suvarov (descendant of Russia's famed general) assaulted the bank at Monte Carlo for a solid month and left it with a daily deficit...
Unexpected Prop. Strengthening Schermerhorn's position and the throne was an unexpected prop, Prince Consort Bernhard. Before the war, when his flashy roadster was constantly streaking from The Hague to the Riviera, most Dutchmen tagged Prince Bernhard as a playboy. Tut during the war he played a big part in fusing the quarreling Dutch Resistance forces into a unified group which did a notable job of preparing the ground ahead of the Canadian liberators. Bernhard himself negotiated with the Germans and had everything practically sewed up, except for actual signatures, when Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery received their surrender...
Having Wonderful Time. A typical G.I. evening on the Riviera runs as follows: dinner at 7, movie at 8, then to the Angleterre's Air Forces nightclub, where G.I.s jitterbug, watch a floor show which includes jugglers, acrobats, tap dancers...
...deadened French Riviera, pre-war Europe's smartest playspot for the international set, has come back to life as the "United States Riviera Rest Area" for war-weary U.S. soldiers. The Sixth Army Group started the revival last October. By last week, 6,000 G.I.s a week were flocking into 42 luxury hotels near the sunny sands at Nice. Shortening U.S.R.R.A. to "Heaven," they pronounced it the best thing the U.S. Army ever...