Word: rivieras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week La Sibylle, commanded by 32-year-old Lieut. Gustave Curot, was assigned the duty of fighting a mock landing on the Riviera. La Sibylle submerged, and surface ships of the French Mediterranean Squadron followed her course on Asdic detectors for an hour. Then they lost...
...French Riviera, Auto Heir Horace E. Dodge Jr., 51, gave some expensive publicity to sometime Actress Gregg Sherwood, 26, whose announcement last year that they would get married was pooh-poohed by Dodge as just an attempt to get more free publicity. On the terrace of the Palm Beach Casino-where 40 guests enjoyed mounds of orchids ($15 each), 60 lbs. of ice-encased caviar and a $1,000 display of fireworks-Horace presented his platinum-blonde friend with a $4,290 gold bracelet (her collection of gewgaws from Dodge already includes a $3,000 gold cigarette lighter...
...which a 10-ft.-square cabin and three meals a day cost only $1.50 to $1.80. For Lone-Star Staters, Southern France made frantic preparations for La Semaine du Texas, an eight-day week, when imported Neiman-Marcus models in ten-gallon hats will roam the ranges of the Riviera...
...Isabel Townsend Pell. 51, New York socialite and a heroine of the French underground during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After brief flings at real estate, the stage and auto racing, she joined the Maquis in 1940 at her summer home, in Auribeau on the Riviera. Known as "Fredericka" and la fille å la mėche blonde (because of a lock of white hair on her forehead), she served the Resistance movement for four years, once rescued 16 U.S. paratroopers stranded behind enemy lines...
...Rita. Prince and Cucuface set off on a cheerful pilgrim's progress from Paris to the Riviera. Their delicate palates and foxy noses are proof against phony vintage wines; their false humility endears them to the wealthy, and their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with...