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Clare Scifi was wellborn. Her father was the Count of Sasso-Rosso, the wealthy scion of an ancient Roman family, who owned a sizable palace at Assisi and a castle on Mt. Subasio. Clare was beautiful, with long golden hair, and it was not surprising that when she was 153 most eligible young man asked for her hand in marriage. But Clare said no; she wished to consecrate herself to God. Her parents hoped she would grow...
Come, come, Godolphin, scion of Kings...
Divorced. By Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 55, sometime journalist, scion of Manhattan society's reigning family: his fifth wife, Patricia Murphy Wallace Vanderbilt, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Citation: "Worthy scion of a noble family, earnest and reverent Jew who has constantly upheld the ethical teachings of his ancestral faith and has striven consistently to strengthen the intellectual and social foundations of our country...
Hawk-nosed Gaetano Marzotto, Count of Valdagno and Castelvecchio, scion of a long line of Italian textile men, hopped into his Lancia one day in 1949 and headed south through the boot of Italy for a vacation. When night fell, the count stopped at one bug-ridden hotel after another, looking for a place to sleep, but found them all booked solid. Marzotto finally slept in his car, woke up rumpled and resolved. He dashed back to Rome, called on President Einaudi and Premier de Gasperi, and asked: "Do you realize how much good tourist money Italy is losing...