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...late summer of 1812, when Johanna Rosina Wagner conceived the child who was to be called Richard. New evidence:* in the early summer of 1813, Frau Wagner journeyed with her newborn infant smack through the middle of a Napoleonic war to visit Geyer, who was playing at a spa in Bohemia. She left six moppets-the youngest aged two-at home in Leipzig. Contrary to the custom of the times, Richard was not baptized until twelve weeks after his birth. His legal father died three months later. Widow Wagner married Geyer the following summer, bore him a daughter six months...
...swank-loving, multimillionaire Aga Khan, was impressed. After Munich he wrote to the London Times predicting there would be no war. When the Blitzkrieg struck Flanders the Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum (rated No. 5 among the ten best-dressed women in the world) fled from a French spa, not to Britain but to Switzerland. In Geneva last week the Aga Khan was no longer able to get money transferred from his bank accounts in London, Bombay and Cairo...
...they withdrew forward units under terrible battering. But at the line's western end, below Abbeville, where thin British regiments sweated under a torrid summer sun, a double armored column punched swiftly across the Somme delta to the Bresle River, then down to Forges-les-Eaux, a little spa east of Rouen. The Allied line closed behind these raiders, whose objective was to cut Paris' communications to the sea and to force Wey-gand's main retreat southeastward. Allied planes, bombing and machine-gunning, attacked the clanking intruders in swarms...
...Geneva the League of Nations began preparing to evacuate, first to the French spa of Vichy, then if necessary to the European Clipper terminus, Lisbon. Bustling but dignified League Secretary General Joseph Avenol, a Frenchman, had already sent the League's more important documents ahead to France. "We are so disappointed that Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium failed to appeal to the League," commented a typical Secretariat bigwig. "The practical results might not have been great, but the appeals would at any rate have been on the League's records...
...spa is Arrowhead but an oldtimer. On its site for 34 years stood a creaky, bulbous-Victorian hotel building. Soon after Paley & friends bought the place (including 1,800 acres of ground) for $800,000, a fire destroyed the old building, which they would have had to tear down, left them richer by $277,671 in insurance. To lay out the new buildings Architects Gordon Kaufman and Paul Williams were hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper...