Word: consuelo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What makes his success all the more remarkable is that Valentino opened his salon in Rome only six years ago, after learning the trade from Jean Dessès and Guy Laroche in Paris. Says Valentino Customer Consuelo Crespi: "He went after the extravagant, luxurious woman, and what he wanted he got." First he got Jackie Kennedy by dedicating five evening gowns to her in 1961. She remains his most constant client, last year bought her pants suit from his collection. She often writes him long, glowing letters, has even been known to clap her hands, crying "Valentino, live...
Rutherfurd himself had an intriguing romance as a youth. In 1895 he had been secretly engaged to Railroad Heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, whose marriage to the Duke of Marlborough was annulled years later by the Sacred Rota of the Roman Catholic Church on the ground that she had loved Rutherfurd but had been forced to marry Marlborough by her domineering mother...
...senate, Demo cratic membership fell from 43% to a mere 20%. Massachusetts-born Hoff, who was on a State Department tour of Europe and Asia for all but the last week of the campaign, called it a "horrendous defeat." Penny-wise Vermonters had plainly responded to G.O.P. National Committeewoman Consuelo Bailey's charge: "This Governor's been spending the way Johnson does in Washington. Some of the bonding people out of state have been wondering whether Vermont has suddenly gone crazy." So did Hoff. He immediately cut his ambitious legislative program by half and started preparing...
Serena is the daughter of Edwin F. Russell, 48, a newspaper executive from Elizabeth, N.J., who met Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, during the war, when he was in the U.S. Navy and she was working as a lathe assistant. Since then, Russell has moved up in the publishing empire run by the son of a Russian immigrant, Sam Newhouse, who recently made him publisher of Vogue...
...Consuelo, the elder daughter, is the only one of the four who attempts to rise on the social ladder. Like Manuel, she finished grade school, but she goes on for two years of commercial training. In all her jobs, however, her bosses try to seduce her; it is a coworker, Mario, to whom she gives herself, but she does not love him. Her efforts to raise herself to bourgeois respectability make her an outcast at home, while her attractiveness to hungry employers makes her feel unable to continue working...