Word: zizi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, Bobo went to Palm Beach to visit Polo Player Winston Guest and his blonde wife "Zizi." A fortnight ago, Rockefeller boarded an Eastern Airlines plane for Miami. He narrowly escaped being killed when one of the plane's engines exploded (TIME, Feb. 16). When he joined Bobo, they decided to get married as soon as possible. The decision set off a series of magnificent improvisations...
...were startled to find a signed Utrillo hanging on the wall. That started them on the trail of what may be the biggest ring of art forgers in recent years. Last week Paris cops nabbed the artist who forged the Utrillos. She was one Mme. Juliette Claude La Tour-"Zizi" to her Montmartre friends...
...Zizi, a middle-aged little lady with brown, shoulder-length hair, was sorry to be caught, but said she was not a bit sorry to stop copying Utrillo. The 63-year-old modern's cool, empty streets thrilled her not at all, said Zizi. It would be hard to forge the art of her favorites, Da Vinci and Velasquez, she said, "but my Utrillos are better painted than the master...
...must have appeared as if the confused and scandalous state of affairs long chronic inside the Rumanian Royal Family had now spread to the kingdom at large in a more appalling form. When he was in his cradle his father was two-timing with the now forgotten Mme. Zizi Lambrino. When he was a lad of five Mihai was made King under a Regency, but three years later, in 1930, Scapegrace Carol flew back from exile and with Army backing took the throne from his son. Jesuitical historians last week could recall nobody else since the world began...