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Where are Girl-Next-Door June Allyson, Novelist Nelson Algren, Psychologist Erich Fromm, Automation Millionaire John Diebold, Folk Singer Burl Ives and Mr. America himself, Bert Parks? Scrubbed out of the 1973 Celebrity Register, for one thing. Instead, publiciety's decennial Almanach de Gotha includes for the first time Rapist Eldridge Cleaver, Lesbian Jill Johnston, Red Black Angela Davis, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, and Senator Thomas Eagleton. For readers anxious to achieve such status, Microsociologist Cleveland Amory, in a foreword to the new edition, passes on some advice. The way to become a celebrity, said Aristotle Onassis, who ought...
Died. Mary Landon Baker, 61, eccentric altar ego, tabloid-titillating ''shy bride" of the 1920's, who left Millionaire Fiancé Alister McCormick at the Chicago church three times in 1922, spurned all the rest of her claimed 65 proposals from an Almanach de Gotha of suitors, made even her well-heeled father "fed up to the limit with Mary's caprices"; in London...
These words, written by a Belgian nun in the register of St. Catherine's Female Academy at Benicia, Calif., were as important to Louise Hungerford as if they were inscribed in the Almanach de Gotha. They were her cachet of respectability, her inner answer to the poverty of childhood and the gossiping envy that surrounded her later life. Her father could afford to keep her at St. Catherine's for only a single term. But it was enough. In her 85th year, when she had been a friend of the former Queen of Spain and the Prince...
...Card to the Count's. The new host was dapper millionaire Don Carlos de Beistegui y Iturbi, a mysterious bachelor often called "The Count of Monte Cristo" by romantic gossipists. Months before the party, the international smart set whispered excitedly that the guest list would read like the Almanach de Gotha. To be invited to Don Carlos' shindig became a distinction fervently desired by the gilded socialites of the continents. Black markets sprang up in most of the world's fashionable capitals offering cards to the ball for as much as $500 each. Jacques Path, Dior...
...mauve decadence. Its décor was the most glittery, its women the most ravishing, its top-drawer scandals the most toothsome. No Manhattan nightclub captain was ever so suave or tactful as Maxim's famed, monocled Chasseur Gérard, who, with a handy grasp of the Almanach de Gotha unsurpassed by any dowager in Europe, discreetly arranged introductions between the world's great ones and Maxim's incomparable ladies of the evening...